Stockton and District Tramways Company

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Stockton and District Tramways Company
Operation
Locale Stockton-on-TeesNorton
Open 1893
Close 1896
Status Closed
Infrastructure
Track gauge 4 ft (1,219 mm)
Propulsion system(s) Steam
Statistics
Route length 6.28 miles (10.11 km)

The Stockton and District Tramways Company operated a steam tramway service between Stockton-on-Tees and Norton between 1893 and 1896. [1]

Stockton-on-Tees town in County Durham, England

Stockton-on-Tees is a market town in County Durham, England. The town has a population of 105,682, with a population of 238,000 in the wider borough, according to 2017 estimates.

Norton, County Durham village in County Durham, England, United Kingdom

Norton is a village in the unitary authority of Stockton-on-Tees and the ceremonial county of County Durham, England.

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History

The Stockton and District Tramways Company was a short lived tramway operator, surviving for only 3 years. In 1893 it took over the services operated by the Stockton and Darlington Steam Tramway Company which had run into financial difficulty.

The Stockton and Darlington Steam Tramways Company operated two separate tramway concerns in the North East of England. The first was an horse-drawn tramway service in Darlington from 1880 to 1904, and the second was a steam tramway in Stockton-on-Tees between 1881 and 1893.

Closure

It was unable to make the tramway pay and in 1896 it sold out to the Imperial Tramways Company. Steam services continued for a few months until the route was closed for modernisation, to later re-open as the Middlesbrough, Stockton and Thornaby Electric Tramways Company.

The Imperial Tramways Company Ltd was created to bring under common management a number of street tramways. Originally based in London, its headquarters moved to Bristol in 1892 and from then on it shared its senior management with Bristol Tramways under the chairmanship of George White.

The Middlesbrough, Stockton and Thornaby Electric Tramways Company operated an electric tramway service between Middlesbrough, Thornaby-on-Tees, Stockton-on-Tees and Norton between 1898 and 1921.

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References

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