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Paisley District Tramways Company

Paisley District Tramways Company operated a tramway service in Paisley between 1903 and 1923.

History

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:

  • Aurs Road, Barrhead
  • Main Road, Elderslie
  • Paisley Road, Renfrew

Takeover

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.

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