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PLYMOUTH TRAMWAYS ACT 1889

Updated: 12 August 2011

The Plymouth Tramways Act 1889 authorised the formation of Plymouth's fifth tramway company, the Plymouth Tramways Company. This was to take over the lines already constructed by the Plymouth, Devonport and District Tramways Company under their Acts of 1882 and 1884 and which were, in 1889, the property of the Plymouth Tramways Company Limited.

No fewer than 16 new stretches of tramways were authorised to be constructed to a gauge of 3 feet 6 inches:-

Lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 - From the junction of Mutley Plain with Huntiscombe (sic) Road through Tavistock Road and Old Town Street;

Line 5 - From the termination of line 1 through Tavistock Place and back into Tavistock Road to a junction with line 4;

Line 10 - From tramway 2 at Pound Street, along Pound Street to the junction with Compton Street;

Line 11 - Linking the end of line 3 in Pound Street with the end of line 10, also in Pound Street;

Line 12 - From Pound Street/Compton Street to the intersection of Cobourg Street with Saltash Street;

Line 13 - From the termination of line 12 along Cobourg Street to the junction with the existing tramway at Richmond Street;

Line 15 - From line 7 along Old Town Street and Market Avenue to the Old Cattle Market.

Lines 8, 9, 14 and 16 (the latter from Market Avenue through the Cattle Market, Cornwall Street and Russell Street and terminating at a junction with the existing tramway in Russell Street) were not authorised by the Act.

The Act also empowered the Company to abandon, take up and remove portions of line built by the old Company; to widen part of Old Town Street; and to use either animal, steam, mechanical, electric or cable power.

Important note: The above synopsis does not cover all of the Sections in the Act.

Source:

Plymouth Tramways Act 1889.