Lea Bridge, Leyton and Walthamstow Tramways
Owner Lea Bridge, Leyton and Walthamstow Tramways Company
Opened 12th May 1883 (horse)
Operator Lea Bridge, Leyton and Walthamstow Tramways Company
Service ceased October (?) 1884
Liquidator appointed 15th January 1885
Taken over 1888 (William Griffiths)
Transferred October (?) 1888 (to the Lea Bridge, Leyton and Walthamstow Tramways Company Limited — a newly incorporated company)
Re-opened 13th May 1889 (horse)
Transferred 12th August 1889 (to the Lea Bridge, Leyton and Walthamstow Tramways Company — a new statutory company)
Operator Lea Bridge, Leyton and Walthamstow Tramways Company
Taken over 1st June 1905 (Leyton Urban District Council — tracks within Leyton and Walthamstow)
Operator (lessee) Lea Bridge, Leyton and Walthamstow Tramways Company
Taken over (operation) 1st November 1905 (Leyton Urban District Council — tracks within Leyton and Walthamstow)
Taken over (operation) 1st November 1905 (Leyton Urban District Council — company-owned tracks in Hackney, as the lessee of the company)
Taken over (tracks) July 1908 (London County Council — tracks in Hackney, leased to Leyton Urban District Council)
Length 4.8 miles
Gauge 4ft 8½ins
Button description Uniforms probably not worn
Comment Photographs or LBL&WTCo services are rare, and those depicting staff are rarer still (see link). Those few shots available suggest that the only item clothing issued to employees was a kepi-style cap, and that uniform buttons therefore, probably never existed.