Walthamstow Urban District Council Light Railways
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Walthamstow Urban District Council Light Railways operated a tramway service in Walthamstow between 1905 and 1933.[1]
History
The Walthamstow and District Light Railway Order of 1903 authorised Walthamstow Urban District Council to start electric tramway services on 3 June 1905. The "and district" referred to the lines beyond the Walthamstow boundary into Chingford, where the terminus was just short of the "Prince Albert" pub, and Leyton, where the line ended at the "Bakers' Arms" PH. The depot and offices were located in Chingford Road at TQ 3731 9018.
The tramways became immortalised in January 1909, in national newspapers. The incident was known as the Walthamstow Tram Chase or Tottenham Outrage. Two Latvian revolutionaries attacked a clerk in Tottenham and stole a large amount of money. Pursued by the police and the public there was shooting and some people were killed. The thieves commandeered a tram towards Highams Park. Both men eventually killed themselves and the money was never found. The incident later became the subject of a silent film.[2]
Closure
The services were taken over by London Passenger Transport Board on 1 July 1933.
References
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- Aberdare
- Barmouth Junction & Arthog
- Cardiff Corporation
- Cardiff Company
- Cardiff District and Penarth Harbour
- Fairbourne
- Glyn Valley
- Great Orme
- Harlech
- Llandudno & Colwyn Bay
- Llanelly
- Llanelly and District Electric
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Neath & District
- Neath Corporation
- Newport Company
- Newport Corporation
- Oystermouth
- Pontypridd and Rhondda Valley
- Pontypridd Urban District
- Pwllheli & Llanbedrog
- Pwllheli Corporation
- Rhondda
- Swansea & Mumbles
- Swansea Improvements
- Swansea Constitution Hill Incline
- Wrexham District
- Wrexham & District Electric
- Aberdeen District
- Aberdeen Corporation
- Aberdeen Suburban
- Airdrie & Coatbridge
- Ayr
- Carstairs House
- Cruden Bay Hotel
- Dumbarton
- Dundee & District
- Dundee Corporation
- Dundee, Broughty Ferry & District
- Dunfermline
- Edinburgh Street
- Edinburgh & District
- Edinburgh Northern
- Edinburgh Corporation
- Falkirk
- Glasgow Company
- Glasgow Corporation
- Glasgow & Ibrox
- Greenock & Port Glasgow
- Inchture
- Kilmarnock
- Kirkcaldy
- Lanarkshire
- Leith
- Musselburgh
- Paisley
- Paisley District
- Perth & District
- Perth Corporation
- Rothesay & Ettrick Bay
- Stirling & Bridge of Allan
- Vale of Clyde
- Wemyss
- Scottish Tramway and Transport Society
and suppliers
- British Thompson-Houston
- Brush Electrical Engineering Company
- Dick, Kerr & Co.
- Electric Railway and Tramway Carriage Works
- English Electric
- Thomas Green & Son
- Hurst Nelson
- Kitson and Company
- Lancaster Carriage and Wagon Works
- Maley & Taunton
- Manlove, Alliott & Co. Ltd.
- Merryweather & Sons
- Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
- G.F. Milnes & Co.
- Milnes Voss
- Starbuck Car and Wagon Company
- United Electric Car Company
- William Wilkinson
companies
- Balfour Beatty
- Birmingham and Midland Tramways Joint Committee
- British Electric Traction
- British Thomson-Houston
- National Electric Construction Company
- New General Traction Company
- Imperial Tramways Company
- Patent Cable Tramways Corporation
- Provincial Tramways Company
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