Description:This view looks north along Midland Road, Swadlincote.
On the left a newly built property is waiting for the windows to be fitted, this would become W. Wilkinson’s, fruit and vegetable supplier. In the centre there is Burton and Ashby Tramcar number 9 travelling towards Ashby. In later years a large part of the surrounding area was redeveloped with housing, flats and the Eureka Park.
The Burton and Ashby Light Railway was a tramway system operating in three counties from Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire to Swadlincote in Derbyshire and then to Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, between 1906 and 1927. The tramway opened on 2 July 1906 and was operated by the Midland Railway, until it was taken over by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) in 1923. The system used the tracks of the Burton-upon-Trent Corporation Tramways from a terminus by the Town Hall in Wellington Street, through Station Street, Borough Road and Guild Street before using its own infrastructure through Swadlincote to Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The system closed on 13 February 1927.