Description:Looking south-east along Hill Street in Swadlincote with a Burton and Ashby tramcar in the centre of the picture. Most of the buildings on the left remain (2024) although over the years several have changed use. The Baptist Chapel on the left of the tramcar has a date stone of 1876. The buildings on the right have been replaced by a housing development.
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.