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    Reading Corporation Tramways operated a tramway service in Reading in the English county of Berkshire between 1901 and 1939. The tramway is one of the...
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    origins of Reading Transport can be traced back to the 19th century, when the privately owned Reading Tramways Company (part of the Imperial Tramways Company)...
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    Reading Tramways Company operated a horse-drawn tramway service in Reading in the English county of Berkshire between 1879 and 1901. The company is one...
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    first line of the Reading Tramway Company's horse-drawn tramway was opened along Broad Street. In 1903, Reading Corporation Tramways' electric trams replaced...
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    Glasgow Corporation Tramways were formerly one of the largest urban tramway systems in Europe. Over 1000 municipally-owned trams served the city of Glasgow...
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    and District Tramways Glasgow Subway Honolulu Rapid Transit and Land Company Keighley Tramways Padarn Railway Reading Corporation Tramways Redruth and...
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    Newcastle Corporation Tramways operated a tramway service in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1901 and 1950. Services began on 16 December 1901. A fleet of...
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    Birkenhead Corporation Tramways operated a tramway service in Birkenhead between 1901 and 1937. In 1860, Birkenhead started the first street tramway in Britain...
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    Trolleybuses in Reading begin operation. 1939 – 20 November: Reading Corporation Tramways close. 1942 2 May: The Suffragan office of Bishop of Reading is revived...
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    Liverpool Corporation Tramways operated a tramway service in Liverpool between 1898 and 1957. At the peak of Britain’s first-generation tramways, it was...
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    electric street tramway. Stored, and then preserved, by Blackpool tramways, it has been in the care of the museum since 1973. London United Tramways 159, an electric...
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  • Edinburgh Corporation Tramways was a Scottish tram network that formerly served the City of Edinburgh, Scotland. The city used four-wheeled double-decked...
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    Brighton Corporation Tramways operated an electric tramway service in Brighton between 1901 and 1939. Brighton Corporation Tramways operated an extensive...
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    Northampton Corporation Tramways operated the tramway service in Northampton between 1901 and 1934. The company was purchased from the Northampton Street...
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  • of the tramways was 4 ft (1,219 mm). In 1880 the Bradford Corporation had gained parliamentary approval under the Bradford Corporation Tramways Order to...
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  • Darwen Corporation Tramways operated a tramway service in Darwen between 1899 and 1946. The Corporation took over the services operated by the Blackburn...
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    Between 1901 and 1949 Manchester Corporation Tramways (known as Manchester Corporation Transport Department from 1929 onwards) was the municipal operator...
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    Belfast Corporation Tramways was an operator of tram, trolleybus and bus services in Belfast from 1905 to 1973. Belfast Corporation Tramways began on 1...
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    Chester Corporation Tramways operated a tramway service in Chester between 1903 and 1930. Chester Town Council seemed less than enthusiastic to purchase...
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    Cardiff Corporation Tramways was a company that operated an electric tramway service in Cardiff between 1902 and 1950. Horse trams had run in the city...
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    Corporation Tramways (YCT) provided an electric tramway and trolleybus service in York between 1910 and 1935. In 1909, the City of York Corporation purchased...
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    Sunderland Corporation Tramways operated a tramway service in Sunderland (then part of County Durham) between 1900 and 1954. In 1900 Sunderland Corporation bought...
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    Newport Corporation Tramways operated a tramway service in Newport between 1894 and 1937. Newport Corporation took over the Newport Tramways Company on...
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    Encyclopaedia. Yateley, Hampshire, UK: Trolleybooks. ISBN 0-904235-18-1. "Reading Corporation Transport - Trolleybuses". Bus Zone. Retrieved 28 February 2008....
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    Gloucester Corporation Tramways operated an electric tramway service in Gloucester between 1904 and 1933. Gloucester City Council purchased the assets...
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  • Bournemouth and Poole Tramways. Midhurst, West Sussex: Middleton Press. ISBN 1-873793-47-2. Bett, W. H.; Gillham, J. C. (1990). The Tramways of South West England...
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    Coventry Corporation Tramways operated a tramway service in Coventry, England, between 1912 and 1940. The Coventry and District Tramways Company successfully...
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    Rochdale Corporation Tramways operated an electric tramway service in Rochdale between 1902 and 1932. In 1898, Rochdale Town Council adopted a resolution...
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  • Corporation Tramways operated an electric tramway service in Middlesbrough between 1921 and 1934. On 4 April 1921 Middlesbrough Corporation Tramways took...
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  • Rawtenstall Corporation Tramways operated a passenger tramway service in Rawtenstall between 1908 and 1932. In January 1908 the newly formed Rawtenstall...
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