Staffordshire Potteries Street Railway
Owner Staffordshire Potteries Street Railway Company Ltd
Opened 13th January 1862 (horse)
Operator Staffordshire Potteries Street Railway Company Ltd
Taken over (operation) 1863 (Edward Brassington- lessee)
Taken over (operation) March 1864 (G B Bradford - lessee)
Taken over (company) 17th March 1880 (North Staffordshire Tramways Company Ltd)
Operator (lessee) Mr Bradford
Last standard-gauge horse service 28th September 1881
Length 1.75 miles
Gauge 4ft 8½ins
Button description Pattern of button currently unknown
Comment The Staffordshire Potteries Street Railway was promoted by American entrepreneur George Francis Train, the man behind the first true street tramway in the British Isles (Birkenhead Street Railway), as well as three separate lines in London (Marble Arch Street Railway; Surrey Side Street Railway; Westminster Street Railway) and one in Darlington (Darlington Street Railway). Staff working the Birkenhead and London lines are known to have worn military-style uniforms, and examples of buttons from them have survived, suggesting that marked buttons may once have existed for the Staffordshire Potteries Street Railway, though unfortunately, none appear to have survived.