BIRMINGHAM

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TRAM ROUTE

Operator: Centro (West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive)

Midland Metro

Snow Hill Station - The Hawthorns - Kenrick Park - West Bromwich - Black Lake - Wednesbury - Bilston - Priestfield - Wolverhampton

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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM

NETWORK LENGTH

• Tramway: 20 km.



HISTORY

Tramways

• Horse tramways: 20 May 1872 - 1907.
• Steam tramways: 1882 - 31 Dec. 1906.
• Cable tramways: 1888 - 1911.
• First-generation electric tramway: 4 Jan. 1904 - 4 July 1953.
• Revived tramway (Midland Metro): 31 May 1999 - today.

GAUGE

• Tramways (First-generation tramways): 1067 mm.
• Midland Metro: 1435 mm.

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SOURCES

PRINT

• Bett, W.H. & Gillham, J.C. Great British tramway networks. London: Light Railway Transport League, 1962.
• "Birmingham City transport tramway services" The Modern Tramway, Feb. 1946 (9: 97), p.15.
• Gilbert, C. "Memories of Birmingham's steam trams" Modern Tramway, Apr.-May 1965 (28: 328-329), p.117-127 and 162-170.
• Jaques, P. (ed.) Camwell's Birmingham: One man's transport perspective. Droitwich: Birmingham Transport Historical Group, 2007.

WIKIS

• Birmingham Corporation Tramways [En]
• Midland Metro [En]
• Transport in Birmingham [En]
• West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive [En]

WEB SITES

• Birmingham Corporation Transport - The Tramways: 1872-1953 (Site maintained by Peter Gould) [En]
• Centro (West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive) [En]
• The Metro [En]
• Rail Around Birmingham & the West Midlands [En]