Yorkshire (Woollen District) Electric Tramways

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Yorkshire (Woollen District) Electric Tramways
Operation
Locale Dewsbury
Open 18 February 1903
Close 31 October 1934
Status Closed
Infrastructure
Track gauge 4 ft 8 12 in (1,435 mm)
Propulsion system(s) Electric
Statistics
Route length 22.92 miles (36.89 km)

The Yorkshire (Woollen District) Electric Tramways operated a tramway service in Dewsbury between 1903 and 1934. [1]

Dewsbury town in West Yorkshire, Britain

Dewsbury is a minster town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Huddersfield and south of Leeds. It lies by the River Calder and an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation.

Contents

History

Under the Spen Valley Light Railways Order of 1901 British Electric Traction set up the Yorkshire (Woollen District) Electric Tramways.

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.

The company established a tramway network centred on Dewsbury with branches to Cleckheaton, Birkenshaw, Ravensthorpe, Thornhill and Birstal.

Operations were replaced by the buses of British Electric Traction-owned Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Company.

Closure

Services ended on 31 October 1934.

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References

  1. The Golden Age of Tramways. Published by Taylor and Francis.