Tramways. Bury & District
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Bury and Broughton steam tramcar service commenced - 23/3/1883. Tramcar overturned in Bury 3/4/1883. Fleet St to Limefield Station opened 20/5/1894. Corner stone of tramshed laid by Ald. William Sykes - 23/7/1902. Electric service between Whitefield and Manchester started - 3/4/1903. Opening of first section (Fairfield) of electric tram service in Bury - 3/6/1903. BT 6/6/1901 p11 Opening of tram route. Bury to Whitefield electric tram service opened 20/7/1903. Last steam train ran on local tramways, Tottington to Bury - 10/7/1904. Arbittration award £159,075 - 14/7/1904. Bolton Rd section opened 10/8/1904. Tottington section opened 16/9/1904. Radcliffe to Whitefield opened 4/1/1905. Radcliffe to Stopes opened - 18/4/1905. Bury to Radcliffe opened 24/6/1905. Smash at Radcliffe 20/1/1906. See also BT 12/2/49 & 16/2/49. Last tram to Bolton See BT 27/1/34 p4. Last tram to operate in Bury was on Walmersley section 13/2/1949. Last tram from Tottington was in Feb 1948.Manchester, Bury, Rochdale & Oldham tramways - see BT 24/2/1883 p8. 10/3/1883 p8, 17/3/1883 p5 & 12/2/1949 p4. Also Bury Transport Committee Souvenir 1953. Last meeting see BT 31/7/1909 p9. See also BT 16/11/1912 - 30/11/1912. A series of articles on Transport in Bury "The Tramways and Before" Fred Campbell's Press Cuttings A65.9NEW p4, 20.
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