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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]A Tram belonging to the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways Company (1913-1932)made its first trip between Loscoe and Kimberley on 4th July 1913. The line from Ripley to Nottingham was completed and opened on 1st Jan 1914, a distance of 15 miles, which it covered in 1 hour 40 minutes. The tram had green and cream livery, capable of a speed of 30mph and weighing unladen 13 and a half tons was a real force to be reckoned with! It was on 5th October 1932 that the last tram rattled its way into the depot at Langley Mill. In 1928 the company was granted permission to operate a Trolleybus system and on Thursday 5th October 1932 the first vehicles began their service between Ripley and Nottingham, the city terminus being in King Street.The trolley bus made its final journey in 1953[/quote]
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Tram and Trolley bus
replied on: 9/7/2005 10:13:39 PM

A Tram belonging to the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways Company (1913-1932)made its first trip between Loscoe and Kimberley on 4th July 1913. The line from Ripley to Nottingham was completed and opened on 1st Jan 1914, a distance of 15 miles, which it covered in 1 hour 40 minutes. The tram had green and cream livery, capable of a speed of 30mph and weighing unladen 13 and a half tons was a real force to be reckoned with! It was on 5th October 1932 that the last tram rattled its way into the depot at Langley Mill.
In 1928 the company was granted permission to operate a Trolleybus system and on Thursday 5th October 1932 the first vehicles began their service between Ripley and Nottingham, the city terminus being in King Street.The trolley bus made its final journey in 1953

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