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Further secondhand trams were later obtained from Manchester. The last new trams for the city were built by R Y Pickering of Wishaw in 1949. The city's best known service was route 1, from Bridge of Don to Bridge of Dee, the numbering of which is preserved by the current number 1 bus service serving the same areas. The city's last tram operated ...
Route 1 was created to replace the "Bridges" Aberdeen Corporation Tramways route in the late 1950s. [2] [3] Route 2 was formerly numbered 21, it was renumbered in the 1960s. [4] Service 1A, which offered an express service from Robert Gordon University to the city centre, was withdrawn in March 2020. It was reintroduced on 20 February 2023. [5] [6]
Aberdeen Corporation took over the company on 26 August 1898 and formed the Aberdeen Corporation Tramways to continue the service and modernise it. [10] The council paid the purchase price of £84,735, representing £15 per share, and they also took over the temporary loans amounting to £10,000 and the mortgages of £9,050.
Aberdeen was connected to the railway network from the south with the opening of Aberdeen Ferryhill railway station in 1850. Three years later, the Deeside Railway opened and the following year the railway was extended to Guild Street. From the north, the Great North of Scotland Railway opened its terminus at Kittybrewster in 1854.
The company had a fleet of 11 trams for these two services, from Brush Electrical Engineering Company and United Electric Car Company. Depots were at the junction of Fountainhall Road and Queen's Lane North (grid reference NJ 92362 05887 ), and on St Peter Street (grid reference NJ 94230 07418 ).
Tram 73 was Aberdeen's last double deck tram with an upper-deck balcony; it was stored for two years until lack of resources led to its scrapping in 1956. The closure of Scotland's last tramway (Glasgow in 1962) led to the Society preserving several tramcars, including some in working order at the National Tramway Museum at Crich , near Matlock ...
The Glossop Tramway was a 4.5-mile (7.2 km) long passenger tramway service connecting the mill towns of Glossop and Hadfield in Derbyshire, England. [1] It was authorised by the Board of Trade in 1901 and was opened in 1903 on a gauge of 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm).
The process of upgrading the lines to allow electric trams to run began soon after the takeover, and on 12 July 1900, the horse trams stopped working the Perth Road route, and electric trams began public service. The Lochee route followed suit on 22 October 1900. Work then began on converting the rest of the system, and the steam trams running ...