Worcester Tramways
Owner Tramways Trust Company Limited
Opened 18th February 1884 (horse)
Operator Tramways Trust Company Limited
Liquidation 1st March 1886 (liquidator appointed, but tramway continues to run)
Taken over July 1889 (purchased from the liquidator by Messrs Oppert and Fell)
Taken over 1889 (City of Worcester Tramways Company)
Liquidation 25th April 1892 (liquidator appointed, but tramway continues to run)
Taken over 13th August 1893 (Pritchard, Green and Company, consulting engineers)
Taken over 27th February 1894 (Worcester Tramways Limited)
Taken over 1898 (controlling interest gained by the British Electric Traction Company Limited)
Transferred 1st November 1902 (to the Worcester Electric Traction Company, a subsidiary of the British Electric Traction Company Limited)
Last horse service 28th June 1903
Length 3.28 miles
Gauge 3ft 0ins
Button description Uniforms not worn
Comment Photographic evidence strongly suggests that informal jackets were worn, and that marked company buttons therefore never existed (see link).