Jarrow and District Electric Tramway

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Jarrow and District Electric Tramway

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Map of the route of the Jarrow and District Electric Tramway
Operation
Locale Jarrow
Open 29 Nov 1906
Close 30 June 1929
Status Closed
Infrastructure
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Propulsion system(s) Electric
Statistics
Route length 2.54 miles (4.09 km)

The Jarrow and District Electric Tramway operated an electric tramway service in Jarrow between 1906 and 1929. [1]

Jarrow town in north-east England, located on the River Tyne

Jarrow is a town in north-east England, located on the River Tyne. Historically part of County Durham, in 1974 it became part of the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear.

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History

The Jarrow and District Electric Traction Company was a subsidiary of British Electric Traction. It operated tramway services in Jarrow and the line through Tyne Dock connected with the tracks of the South Shields Corporation Tramways and through services were offered to South Shields. A reciprocal agreement allowed South Shields Corporation Tramways cars to operate over Jarrow company tracks. The Jarrow company received 3s 6d per mile from the South Shields Corporation Tramways to cover working expenses including electrical power and track maintenance. [2]

British Electric Traction

British Electric Traction Company Limited, renamed BET plc in 1985, was a large British industrial conglomerate. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was acquired by Rentokil in 1996, and the merged company is now known as Rentokil Initial.

Tyne Dock Neighbourhood in Tyne and Wear, England

Tyne Dock is a neighbourhood within the town of South Shields, North East England, on the south bank of the River Tyne. It takes its name from the large dock on the river which was opened in 1859 by the North Eastern Railway to handle Tyneside's coal exports. At its height the trade amounted to 7 million tons of coal transported via the four staiths which had been built to facilitate the process. This trade declined in the second half of the twentieth century and the bridges that carried the coal trains into the dock, the famous Tyne Dock Arches, were demolished in the early 1980s. The dock itself has been progressively infilled since closure, allowing for the building of modern storage warehouses. This process concluded with the final 13 acres that were filled in as part of the project to build the second Tyne Tunnel. The Tyne Dock basin was filled with 400,000 cubic metres of sediment dredged from the Tyne.

South Shields Corporation Tramways electric tramway service in South Shields

South Shields Corporation Tramways operated an electric tramway service in South Shields between 1906 and 1946.

Closure

The company replaced its tram services with buses in 1929. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ The Golden Age of Tramways. Published by Taylor and Francis.
  2. ↑ Electrical engineer, Volume 42, 1908
  3. ↑ The Commercial motor, Volume 48. Temple Press Ltd., 1929


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