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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 .
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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.
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
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.
The operation was not commercially successful, and in 1884 the company applied to the Board of Trade to operate steam tramway locomotives. The Dudley, Sedgley and Wolverhampton Tramways Order of 1884 granted permission but required the widening of the roadway on two narrow sections of route.
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A route to Penn Fields opened on 11 July, and another to Tettenhall on 29 October. [6] The last trams ran in August 1928, [5] which allowed the route to Bilston to be opened on 19 November 1928, and this was extended on 28 May 1929 to reach Darlaston. It was at this point that the system became the largest in the world, with around 25 miles (40 ...