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Issue 76 West Derby & Croxteth Park October 2012
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AGE OF THE TRAM Allies, engineer to the Local Board of West Derby, giving precise details of the tram lines. The system consisted of Barker’s Patent Tramway with steel rails running along West Derby Road, Mill Bank and Mill Lane to the terminus at the Village. Mr Allies stipulated a tight schedule: “The various lines when once began shall be each laid at the rate of not less than 300 yards per week. “The contractors are to employ a sufficient number of men
by Stephen Guy, West Derby Society The plans were drawn up and the specifications laid down - horse-drawn trams
were coming to West Derby. A document was written in November 1880 by Edward H
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to advance the work as rapidly as may be considered advisable by the engineer. “They are not to obstruct the traffic of the streets or roads for a longer time than is absolutely necessary and shall not stack material, except when unavoidable, as to interfere with the foot traffic.” A list of prices reveals that the steel rails, delivered to the site, cost £7 7s 6d (£7.38) per ton. A plate-layer was paid 4/6 (28p) a day while a labourer received 3/10 (19p). The new trams were quicker and more comfortable than the old horsedrawn omnibuses. The first bus service started in Liverpool about 1833, travelling between the Turk’s Head inn at Knotty Ash (next to the village hall) and the town centre. A similar bus service started from West Derby Village a few years later, running every half hour. The trams started serving the Village from February 1882. A new depot, behind the old courthouse, included a stables and hayloft. A tramway inspector’s office was built
against the north wall of the courthouse, which meant that the ancient stocks had to be moved. They spent some time in a garden before being reinstated in their present location to commemorate the coronation of Edward VII. The trams were
electrified in 1900, making the horse depot redundant. The building later had a number of uses, latterly by Robewall Furniture until 1976. It was later demolished to make way for a row of shops. One of the last trams is pictured in the
Village on Saturday 23 April 1949 just a month before the service ended.
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