Rossendale Valley Tramways
Owner Rossendale Valley Tramways Company
Opened 31st January 1889 (steam)
Operator Rossendale Valley Tramways Company
Taken over July 1898 (British Electric Traction Company) - majority shareholding acquired
Taken over 1st October 1908 (Rawtenstall and Bacup Corporations; thereafter worked by Rawtenstall Corporation)
Length 6.35 miles
Gauge 4ft 0ins
Button description Elaborate script initials (‘RVTC’)
Materials known Brass
Button Line reference [None]
Comment Photographs taken prior to the aquisition of a majority stake in the RCTCo — by the BETCo — strongly suggest that uniforms were not worn (see link). However, around the time of the takeover, uniforms were certainly being issued to both conductors and inspectors. These uniforms did not bear the usual BETCo insignia, so it is possible that the button depicted is indeed an issue of the RVTCo.
Whilst it has been suggested that the button is actually a hunt button ('RVH'), there is to the best of my knowledge no hunt that corresponds to these initials.