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The Cheltenham and District Light Railway

The Cheltenham and District Light Railway was an electric tramway company which operated between 1901 and 1930. The tramway, which was to 1, 067mm gauge, eventually operated a network of nearly seventeen kilometres in Cheltenham with routes operating from Cheltenham Spa railway station. The tramway was replaced by buses in the late 1920s with the last tram operating on December 21 1930.
One of the original trams [1]

Information for original cars
Number built: 18
Built: 1901
Builder: John Stephenson Company

The company's initial fleet were built by the American manufacturer John Stephenson. The trams used Peckham 9AX trucks and had a capacity of fifty seated passengers [1]. Later trams for the company were built by English Electric in the 1920s, one of these has been preserved.

[1] "An interesting Stephenson car", Street Railway Review Vol. XI No. 8 (Aug 15, 1901) p. 517