Paisley District Tramways Company

Paisley District Tramways Company
Paisley District Tramways Company
	Tramcar 68 from 1919 at the National Tramway Museum
Operation
Locale	Paisley
Open	17 September 1903
Close	1 August 1924
Status	Closed
Infrastructure
Track gauge	4 ft 7+3⁄4 in (1,416 mm)
Propulsion system(s)	Electric
Statistics
Route length	18.75 miles (30.18 km)

Paisley District Tramways Company operated a tramway service in Paisley between 1903 and 1923.^[1]

History

Paisley District Tramways Company took over the Paisley Tramways Company on 17 September 1903 and undertook a programme of modernisation and electrification. The first electric tramway services started on 13 June 1904.

There were depots at:

Aurs Road, Barrhead
Main Road, Elderslie
Paisley Road, Renfrew

Takeover

The company was taken over by Glasgow Corporation Tramways on 1 August 1923, which continued to operate trams in Paisley until the late 1950s.

Paisley District Tramways Company tramcar 68 survived and is preserved in the National Tramway Museum, Paisley 17 (Glasgow 1017) survived and runs at Summerlee, Museum of Scottish Industrial Life.

References

^ The Golden Age of Tramways. Published by Taylor and Francis.

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[1] The Golden Age of Tramways. Published by Taylor and Francis.