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Tramway Companies C-L. Earlier editions of this leaflet anticipated that this volume would cover tramways up to the letter “R”. Very early on it became apparent this was impossible as in C-L alone there are 14 tramways. We have added five appendices which range far and wide in their subject matter. The former includes an island tramway, Guernsey; one, Heywood Corporation Tramways, was truly ephemeral but the reasons for its very existence were unique, while Huddersfield was, initially, the only Corporation authorised to run their own services. The North East is well represented with Gateshead, Hartlepools and Drypool & Marfleet. The Dudley-based tramways were quite different to one another, with one, the Dudley, Sedgley & Wolverhampton, passing through three sets of operators before finally collapsing into the arms of the B.E.T and Wolverhampton Corporation.
CONTENTS:
Foreword
Chapter 1: Coventry & District Tramways Company Ltd
Chapter 2: Dewsbury, Batley & Birstal Tramway Company Ltd
Chapter 3: Drypool & Marfleet Steam Tramway Co. Ltd
Chapter 4: Dudley & Stourbridge Steam Tramways Company, Limited
Chapter 5: Dudley, Sedgley and Wolverhampton Tramways Company Limited
Chapter 6: Gateshead & District Tramways Company Ltd
Chapter 7: Great Yarmouth Port & Haven Commissioners’ Ballast Tramway
Chapter 8: Guernsey Steam Tramway Company Ltd
Chapter 9: The Hartlepools Steam Tramways Company Ltd
Chapter 10: Haslingden Corporation
Chapter 11: Heywood Corporation Tramways
Chapter 12: Huddersfield Corporation Tramways
Chapter 13: Leeds Tramways Company Ltd and Leeds Corporation Tramways
Chapter 14: Leicester Tramways Company Ltd
Appendix: People, Just People
Kerr Stuart’s Geared Locomotive
The ‘Perrett’ Combined Car
1882 – The Rival Transport
Mr Redman’s ‘Cast Iron Trams’
H.M. Inspector of Railways
The Dreaded Caustic Soda Boiler
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