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In the following year of 1897, the Oldham, Ashton and Hyde and District Tramway Company was established to facilitate electric trams across these regions. In 1899, the first electric tram service was operational from the Oldham, Ashton and Hyde and District Tramway Company. One of the routes, operated between Ashton-Under-Lyne - Hyde - Denton ...
Opened on 26 August 1925 (), [1] the Oldham system replaced the Oldham portion of the tramway between Ashton-under-Lyne and Oldham, which was jointly operated by the Ashton and Olham Corporations. [2] When Ashton Corporation decided to replace the trams on its share of this tramway with trolleybuses, it asked Oldham Corporation to do the same.
In 1921 the Manchester Corporation formed a new body with Ashton Corporation and Stalybridge Joint Board which took over the Oldham, Ashton, and Hyde Tramway allowing Manchester trams to run on the Ashton via Guide Bridge section. Due to price rises after the war, operational costs rose from £681,000 in 1919 to £1,520,000 by 1922.
The Ashton-under-Lyne trolleybus system once served the market town of Ashton-under-Lyne, now in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester, north west England. Opened on 26 February 1925 ( 1925-02-26 ) , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] the Ashton system gradually replaced the Ashton-under-Lyne tramway network .
The East Suffolk Light Railway, which originally terminated near the woodland tramway, was first extended, ... 87 BUT 9612T 1956 Ashton-Under-Lyne Corporation;
Ashton-under-Lyne is a tram stop serving Ashton-under-Lyne on Greater Manchester's light rail Metrolink system, it is the terminus of the system's East Manchester Line (EML). It is located beside Ashton-under-Lyne bus station , and a few minutes walk away from Ashton-under-Lyne railway station , forming an Ashton travel hub.
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The company continued to operate horse tram services from Manchester to Hollinwood, Ashton, and Stalybridge until 31 March 1903, [11] the last horse-drawn tramcars in Manchester. [12] The company was liquidated in 1903, and its assets, amounting to £1,167,965 (about £158 million as of 2025) [ 5 ] were distributed to its shareholders.