Tynemouth and District Electric Traction Company information

The Tynemouth and District Electric Traction Company operated a tramway service in North Shields, Tynemouth and Whitley Bay between 1901 and 1931. The...

British Electric Traction Company Limited, renamed BET plc in 1985, was a large British industrial conglomerate. It was once a constituent of the FTSE...

Shields and Tynemouth District Tramways in 1897. The company was taken over by British Electric Traction in 1897 and it was modernised and electrified and opened...

British Electric Traction decided to sell its bus operations to the THC: Aldershot and District Traction Devon General Omnibus and Touring Company and its...

Musselburgh and District Electric Light and Traction Company operated a passenger tramway service in Musselburgh between 1904 and 1928. The National Electric Construction...

Bushmills–Giant's Causeway opened 1 July 1887. World's first use of electric traction with hydroelectric generation. Track built in street in Portrush....

February 1927. At closure, three cars were sold to the Tynemouth and District Electric Traction Company and the remaining ten were sold locally for domestic...

The Worcester Electric Traction Company operated a tramway service in Worcester between 1904 and 1928. The Worcester Tramways Act 1901 authorised the electrification...

eastern end, it connected with the Tynemouth and District Electric Traction Company. However, the Tynemouth company tracks were of a different gauge, so...

guard and four passengers were killed, four passengers were seriously injured. On 18 October 1913, Tynemouth and District Electric Traction Company tram...

53.553°N 1.481°W / 53.553; -1.481 The Barnsley and District Electric Traction Co was an electric tramway network serving the town of Barnsley, South...

Potteries Electric Traction Company operated a tramway service in The Potteries between 1899 and 1928. British Electric Traction incorporated a new company on...

Coventry Electric Tramways Company Ltd, which started operations in 1895. This company was a subsidiary of the New General Traction Company. The contractors...

operated by electric cars using overhead current supply. Other routes were soon electrified and the company became a British Electric Traction subsidiary...

wagonway in 1795. Other 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge wagonways in England and Wales were also built in the early 19th century. Also during this time, numerous...

the first practical electric tramways in the world, just six years after Werner von Siemens first demonstrated electric traction. The inauguration was...

railways in London and Liverpool were early adopters of 600 V DC electric traction and, by 1907, underground railways in London and some provincial cities...

Peterborough's electric tram system was superseded by a motorbus system which was an original component of the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company. Turner, Keith...

integration of service and facilities took place, but the Blyth and Tyne section retained its individual identity. In 1904, electric traction was introduced for...

1807. It later moved from horse power to steam locomotion, and was finally converted to electric power, using the largest tram cars ever built for service...

extension from Groudle to Laxey), the company was known as the Douglas and Laxey Coast Electric Tramway Company. Construction of this next stage started...

MER saloon coach. The line was built from scratch as an electric railway without Fell traction equipment, relying on normal rail adhesion for propulsion...

Wolverhampton District Electric Tramways Company purchased the assets of the Bilston and District Tramways from British Electric Traction. The newly electrified...

Chatham and District Light Railways Company was the originator and first operator of the electric tramway system that served Chatham and Gillingham, and was...

The City of Oxford and District Tramway Company and its successor the City of Oxford Electric Traction Company operated a horse-drawn passenger tramway...

Oakwood Press, 1961 1:2500 map, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Sheet LXXV.12. Ordnance Survey. 1910. "Electric Traction and Motive Power Notes: Portsdown & Horndean"...

second electric tramway in Derbyshire, opening three years after that of Ilkeston. It was a private enterprise run by the Urban Electric Supply Company, which...