Paisley District Tramways Company | |
Locale: | Paisley |
Open: | 17 September 1903 |
Close: | 1 August 1924 |
Status: | Closed |
Propulsion System: | Electric |
Paisley District Tramways Company operated a tramway service in Paisley between 1903 and 1923.[1]
Paisley District Tramways Company took over the Paisley Tramways Company on 17 September 1903 and undertook a programme of modernisation and electrification. The first electric tramway services started on 13 June 1904.
There were depots at:
The company was taken over by Glasgow Corporation Tramways on 1 August 1923, which continued to operate trams in Paisley until the late 1950s.
Paisley 68 survived and became Glasgow 1068; it is preserved at the National Tramway Museum in Crich, Derbyshire. Paisley 17 (Glasgow 1017) also survived and runs at the Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire.