Birmingham and District Tramways
Owner Birmingham and District Tramways Company Ltd
Opened 20th May 1872 (horse)
Operator Birmingham and District Tramways Company Ltd
Took over (lease) 6th September 1876 (Birmingham Corporation) - newly built line from Colmore Row to Hockley Brook.
Taken over (company) 24th May 1876 (Birmingham Tramways and Omnibus Company Ltd)
Took over (lease) 17th June 1876 (Birmingham Corporation) - newly built Bristol Rd line.
Taken over (operation) 1st January 1886 (Birmingham Central Tramways Company) - Birmingham Corporation-owned lines following expiry of the leases
Taken over (company) 1st January 1886 (Birmingham Central Tramways Company) - remaining assets, including lines outside the corporation boundary
Length 6.69 miles (not including lines owned by Birmingham Corporation)
Gauge 4ft 8½ins
Button description Uniforms probably not worn
Comments Photographs of tramcar crews working the horse-drawn services, either under the auspices of the B&DTCo or its successor, the BT&OCo, appear not to have survived, so it is currently not possible to say whether tramcar crews wore uniforms, though if Birmingham's other horse and steam tramway operators were anything to go by, very probably not.