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The Dudley, Sedgley and Wolverhampton Tramways Order of 1884 granted permission but required the widening of the roadway on two narrow sections of route. Modifications to the track were also required so services were suspended from 8 November 1885. [ 5 ]
The Dudley to Stourbridge section was the most popular. Of the 64,073 passengers carried on the Monday, 31,000 travelled between Dudley and Stourbridge [6] with trams running every 5 minutes. On 1 July 1904 ownership was transferred to the Birmingham and Midland Tramways Joint Committee, a subsidiary of British Electric Traction.
This is a list of town tramway systems in the United Kingdom divided by constituent country and by regions of England.It includes all tram systems, past and present. Most of the tram systems operated on 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge (SG) or 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) track, although there were a small number of other gauges used.
Walsall Corporation Tramways took over the section of the system between Willenhall and Darlaston on 1 October 1925, and, on 31 August 1928, the former South Staffordshire routes were transferred to the Dudley, Stourbridge and District Electric Traction Company. Wolverhampton Corporation purchased the rest of the Company assets and the company ...
At that time, there were 27 tram lines in Lisbon, of which six operated as circle lines. As the circle lines operated in both clockwise and anticlockwise directions, each with its own route number, it is more correct to speak of a total of 24 tram routes, all of them running on 900 mm (2 ft 11 + 7 ⁄ 16 in) narrow gauge tram lines.
The tramway was authorised by the Dudley, Stourbridge and Kingswinford Tramways Order of 1881. The line to Kingswinford was not approved. It opened on 21 May 1884 running from the London and North Western Railway Dudley railway station through Brierley Hill and Amblecote to Stourbridge.
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A Nostalgic Look at Birmingham Trams, 1933-53: The Eastern and Western Routes - Including the Stechford Routes, the West Bromwich, Wednesbury and Dudley Routes and the Smethwick, Oldbury and Dudley Routes v. 3, David Harvey, Silver Link Publishing Ltd 1995 ISBN 1-85794-037-7; Birmingham Trams, Silver Link Publishing Ltd 1995 ISBN 1-85794-992-7