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SERVICE
From Monday June 24th 1872 the service was amended to include trams from Plymouth at 6am, 6.30am, 7am, 7.30am and 8am with return cars leaving Devonport at 6.15am, 6.45am, 7.15am, 7.45am and 8.15am. These early trams were run 'for the benefit of artizans, etc.' and the Company made it plain that if they did not pay those services would be withdrawn at the end of the month. There was then a ten minute service between 8.10am at Plymouth, 8.27am at Devonport, and 2pm at Plymouth and 2.17pm at Devonport. The frequency then increased to every five minutes until the trams that departed Plymouth at 9.45pm and Devonport at 10pm. At that point the service became every 15 minutes, with the last tram leaving Plymouth at 11pm and Devonport at 11.15pm. On Sundays the first trams were at 1.15pm from Plymouth and 1.30pm from Devonport with the last round trip leaving Plymouth at 10.15pm. Horse-drawn omnibus services were run as feeders to the tramway, between the terminus at Devonport and New Passage Hill, for the Torpoint Ferry and Keyham Steam Yard, and between the terminus at Plymouth and Bedford Street, North Road and Old Town Street. The fare from North Road to New Passage Hill was 3d. It would appear that the pleas of the local press for people to use the early morning services fell on deaf ears because as from Monday November 4th 1872 the first tram left Plymouth at 8.20am and Devonport at 8.37am. The frequency then became every ten minutes until 10.30am; every five minutes from the until 9pm; and every five minutes again from then until the last tram left Plymouth at 11pm and Devonport at 11.15pm. The horse bus to the Torpoint ferry was also withdrawn.
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