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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.
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.
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 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 ]
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
New Hampshire Route 117 (abbreviated NH 117) is an 8.095-mile-long (13.028 km) east–west highway in northern New Hampshire. NH 117 runs from Franconia to Lisbon in the White Mountains Region . The eastern terminus of NH 117 is at New Hampshire Route 18 and New Hampshire Route 116 in Franconia, where NH 117 is named Sugar Hill Road.
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 ...
An extension from Dudley Street to Wilenhall was inspected on 5 June 1878 by Major Majendie and opened for traffic on 6 June 1878. [3] In mid 1880 the company obtained the permission from the Board of Trade to use steam on the 3 miles (4.8 km) route from Wolverhampton to Willenhall, and the 1.5 miles (2.4 km) route from Wolverhampton to Tettenhall.