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The Chesterfield and District Tramways Company was a tramway system in the Derbyshire town of Chesterfield. The company was formed in 1879 and began operations in 1882. Due to not achieving a measure of solvency, the company took on debts of £500 and went into liquidation. The company operated rather efficiently in its early years which allowed it to buy several more tramcars. The trolleybuses ran from Wittington Moor to Old Brampton for 11 years and were replaced by motor buses.

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  • Chesterfield tramway
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  • The Chesterfield and District Tramways Company was a tramway system in the Derbyshire town of Chesterfield. The company was formed in 1879 and began operations in 1882. Due to not achieving a measure of solvency, the company took on debts of £500 and went into liquidation. The company operated rather efficiently in its early years which allowed it to buy several more tramcars. The trolleybuses ran from Wittington Moor to Old Brampton for 11 years and were replaced by motor buses.
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railroad name
  • Chesterfield Tramway
start year
  • 1882(xsd:integer)
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  • Chesterfield
Locale
  • England
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  • Abandoned
end year
  • 1927(xsd:integer)
abstract
  • The Chesterfield and District Tramways Company was a tramway system in the Derbyshire town of Chesterfield. The company was formed in 1879 and began operations in 1882. Due to not achieving a measure of solvency, the company took on debts of £500 and went into liquidation. The Chesterfield Tramways Company took over in December 1886. The company brought several more tramcars and reduced the fare prices from 2d to 1d. Chesterfield Tramways decided to relay the track and extend the line to the borough boundaries and electrify it. The Electric Tramways Committee put forward a parliamentary bill to that effect. Work began in summer 1904 on the track relaying and hanging of the wire. The longer line was mostly single track with turnouts and double track in the town centre and opened in November 1904. Weekends proved to be rather busy so the line was operated in two sections with facing crossovers on Low Pavement and Cavendish Street to allow two tramcars to park side-by-side. The company operated rather efficiently in its early years which allowed it to buy several more tramcars. Due to the condition of the tracks, the company kept it in condition by patching it. The Tramways Committee decided to transfer operations to trolley and motor buses in 1924. Brampton to Market Place closed in 1927, and Wittington Moor to Cavendish on 23 May 1927. The trolleybuses ran from Wittington Moor to Old Brampton for 11 years and were replaced by motor buses.
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