Middlesbrough and Stockton Tramways



Owner Middlesbrough and Stockton Tramways Company Ltd
Opened
20th January 1875 (horse)
Operator (lessee) Middlesbrough and Stockton Tramways Company Ltd
Taken over (company) August 1878 (Imperial Tramways Company Limited)
Closed 24th December 1897
Length 2.59 miles
Gauge 4ft 8½ins

Button description Uniforms probably not worn

Comment
Photographs of the horse tramway are extremely rare, and the one shot which has survived that depicts a tramwayman (in this case a driver; see link) is of very poor quality indeed. Although it hints that a uniform maybe being worn in ITCo days, this would be at odds with the other horse-drawn tramways built by the ITCo, where uniforms were never issued.