Description:Burton-upon-Trent Corporation Tramways was a tramway service which operated in the town between 1903 and 1929. This photograph was taken on the last day of service, 31 December 1929. Pictured with the tram outside St. Mark’s Church, Winshill are driver Mr J J Clarke and conductor Mr Gamble who worked the last tram, which departed the Winshill terminus at 10.45pm and arrived at the Burton depot at 11.00pm.
The tramway opened on 3 August 1903. The initial 20 tramcars were built by the Electric Railway & Tramway Carriage Works of Preston. The system comprised four routes going out from Station Street to Horninglow, Branston Road, Stapenhill, and Winshill. The depot was in Horninglow Street. Later in 1906 the Burton and Ashby Light Railway was opened and its cars used the Burton Corporation tracks as far as the junction of Bearwood Hill Road and High Bank Road where they moved onto their own tracks. The Burton Corporation system closed on 31 December 1929 to make way for a new public transport system operated solely with buses.