Belfast Corporation Tramways

Belfast Corporation Tramways began life in 1905, taking over from the horse drawn Belfast Street Tramways Company and electrifying the 1, 448mm gauge network. A batch of open-topped double decker trams cars was bought from Brush Traction with British Westinghouse electrical equipment and Brill 21E trucks. Many of these trams were retrofitted with top covers in the 1920s [2]. Some of these cars survived in service until the early 1950s. One has been preserved.

Tram shed [1]

Information for original batch of cars
Number built:	170
Built:	1905
Builder:	Brush Traction
Motor:	2 British Westinghouse 200 Series motors (DC OHLE)

Belfast's tram network at it's largest extent reached for just under 83 kilometres. The tram network was gradually converted over to trolleybus operation from the 1930s and then motor buses. The final trams ran in 1954.

Belfast Brush tram [1]

[1] "The Belfast Tramways", Street Railway Journal Vol XXVII No. 5 (February 3 1906) p. 186

[2] R.W. Rush, British Electric Tramcar Design 1885-1950 (Oxford Publishing, 1976) p. 71