In the early days of tram operations, the local borough or
corporation would lay tracks that would carry the trams, while the
cars would be operated by private enterprise. All this changed on
11 January 1883 when Huddersfield Corporation was given government
dispensation to operate its own system. The last Huddersfield
tramcar operated to Brighouse on Saturday 29 June 1940 and no
vehicle survived into preservation. In 1933 a complete regeneration
of the transport system was undertaken when the Corporation opted
to replace its ageing trams with trolleybuses. Such importance was
placed on the trams (and then trolleybuses) that it was a rare
sight to see a motorbus in the centre of Huddersfield before the
early 1960s. After 1960, however, the Corporation converted to
diesel motorbuses. In a nostalgic look back on the trolley and bus
services of the town, Michael Berry looks at the history and demise
of the Huddersfield system.
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