Status Closed Route length 16.8 miles (27.0 km) Close 1 July 1933 | Propulsion system(s) Electric Open 1 July 1903 | |
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Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ⁄2 in) Locale | ||
West Ham Corporation Tramways operated a tramway service in the County Borough of West Ham between 1901 and 1933.
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History
West Ham Corporation took over the North Metropolitan Tramways horse drawn services in stages starting on 1 July 1903. A programme of modernisation and electrification was undertaken, and the first electric services ran on 27 February 1904.
The company built up a fleet of 134 tramcars in a chocolate and cream livery.
The company experimented with trolley buses as early as 1912. At the annual conference of the Municipal Tramways Association from 25–27 September 1912, an Austrian Cédès-Stoll was the first trolleybus to carry passengers in London, along Greengate Street.
Closure
The services were taken over by London Passenger Transport Board on 1 July 1933.