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Re: Birkenhead Trams 1876
[Re: mikeeb]
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19th Sep 2020 8:26am
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In 1860, the eccentric American entrepreneur George Francis Train built a horse-drawn street railway (tramway) in Birkenhead, the first in Europe, after Liverpool City Council rejected the idea.
It ran on a raised iron track which was laid in just six weeks from Woodside Ferry to Palm Grove, near Birkenhead Park, a distance of one and a half miles. Train, an avid self-publicist, threw a lavish banquet in a warehouse near Woodside to mark the launch. He invited 300 guests, including Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Ministers, MPs and peers, the crowned heads of Europe, Garibaldi and the Pope. Most were otherwise engaged.
The street railway became popular with the public, but drivers of horse-drawn cabs were angry at loss of business. A further annoyance was having to bump their cabs over the raised tracks, to the discomfort of their passengers.
The horses hauling the tramcars also had a hard time. Most of the route was on level ground and the going quite easy. But the gradual haul uphill from Conway Street to Palm Grove took its toll on the animals.
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