A view of Norton High Street showing the laying of the tram tracks. The Unicorn Hotel can be seen in the background c1885.
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
A view of Norton High Street showing the laying of the tram tracks. The Unicorn Hotel can be seen in the background c1885.
I believe this happened in 1898 after the steam trams had stopped running at the end of the previous year. The electric trams which began operating in July 1898 ran on a narrower gauge track. Did they lay tracks from Norton Green to Middlesbrough in a little over six months, even with that workforce?
I think this caption should read – laying and installing the tram tracks in etc, not taking them out.