South Staffordshire Tramway Co
From Graces Guide
1893 the electric overhead system of the South Staffordshire Tramway Company was connected. It connected Walsall, Wednesbury, Darlaston, and Bloxwich. The generating station was at James Bridge. The Electric Construction Corporation built the line.
Staffordshire was the only part of the country in which the overhead system of electrical traction had been adopted with only one series of poles; in other places the electric wire poles are placed on either side of the street, with a wire stretching from one to the other, and a cross wire suspended from the trolley wire, which makes it impossible to have outside passengers. In the South Staffordshire system the poles were on one side of the road only.
- For a description of the tramway and its plant and generating machinery see The Engineer 1892/11/18
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