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Birmingham Corporation Tramways operated a network of tramways in Birmingham from 1904 until 1953. It was the largest narrow-gauge tramway network in the UK, and was built to a gauge of 3 ft 6 in ( 1,067 mm ).
The City of Birmingham Tramways Company Ltd operated trams in Birmingham, England, from 1896 until 1911.. The company was formed on 29 September 1896 by James Ross (President and Vice-President of the Toronto and Montreal Street Railway Co. of Canada) and Sir William Mackenzie to take over the business of the Birmingham Central Tramways Company Ltd. [1]
By February 1926 the tramway route from Selly Oak had been extended to both Rednal and Rubery, so the Corporation decided to replace the two motor bus routes with tramways routes. In 1937 Birmingham City Transport was created out of Birmingham Corporation Tramways. The name reflected the fact that there was now a mixture of trams, trolleybuses ...
Birmingham Corporation Tramways operated a network of tramways in Birmingham from 1904 until 1953. It was the largest narrow-gauge tramway network in the UK, and was built to a gauge of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm). It was the fourth largest tramway network in the UK behind London, Glasgow and Manchester.
The club was set up as a representative side for Birmingham tram workers and its first recorded match was against the Yardley Tramways at Gravelly Hill in 1905. [2] The club joined the Birmingham & District Wednesday F.A. (for works teams) in 1906. [3] In 1919-20 the club joined the Birmingham Combination league, its best season being 5th in ...
Liverpool Corporation Tramways: UK 140 1957 Trams in Kyiv: Ukraine 139.9 Trams in Brussels: Belgium 139 Trams in Dresden: Germany 134.3 Trams in Warsaw: Poland 132 Trams in Stuttgart: Germany 131 Trams in Hanover: 127 Birmingham Corporation Tramways: UK 129.6 [24] 1953 Central California Traction Company: USA 126 [25] Trams in Lodz: Poland 124. ...
The collection includes records from the Northampton Corporation (Tramways) Transport Company dating from 1904 to the early 1990s. Neil Farmer, archivist for Northampton Transport Heritage, said ...
Opened on 27 November 1922 (), [1] [2] it supplemented Birmingham's original tramway network. By the standards of the various now-defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom, the Birmingham system was a medium-sized one, even though Birmingham was then, and still is, the most populous British city outside London.