Accrington on Rails - The Tramways: A Complete History - Robert Kenyon

would continue to operate alongside the omnibuses, and would therefore require the Council to balance both forms of transport side by side for the people of the town.) January At a meeting of the Tramways Sub-Committee, the Tramway Manager recommended a re adjustment of the ‘STOP BY REQUEST’ placed between the 1½ pence stage and Sunnyside on the Baxenden Section. The present STOP on the eighth standard above the Victoria loop on Manchester Road should be moved to the sixth standard, with a ‘STOP BY REQUEST’ substituted on the ninth standard. Also the ‘STOP’ at the Sunnyside loop is relocated to the junction with Hollins Lane. It was agreed to adopt these suggestions. It was also resolved that the Tramway Manager should confer with the Manager of Haslingden tramways on the subject of a revision of services on the Haslingden Section. On the 16 th , Mr M. H. Sanderson was appointed to the vacant post of Borough Engineer & Surveyor. February The Tramway Committee met when the Town Clerk then reported that he had also had a meeting with the solicitors of the LMS Railway Company, who had given an explanation of the Petition they had lodged against the Accrington Corporation Bill. They explained it was largely designed to be protective in character towards their own best interests. March According to official records up until March 31 st , 1928, Accrington’s electric tramcars had covered 14,295, 849 miles in service, with a total of 168,993,098 passenger journeys, without one serious injury or fatality to a passenger. ( Although the same could not be said of pedestrians .) The statistics were broken down as - Gross Revenue Car Mileage Year Accrington Haslingde n Total Accrington Haslingde n Total 1907/0 8 £11,761 - £11,761 238,109 - 238,109 1912/1 3 £27,822 £8,260 £36,082 531,356 149,467 680,823 1917/1 8 £36,713 £10,558 £47,271 529,488 147,277 676,765 1922/2 3 £57,752 £16,860 £74,612 553,321 174,052 727,373 1927/2 8 £54,416 £14,992 £69,408 600,709 186,343 787,052 Passengers Carried Year Accrington Haslingden Total 1907/0 8 2,116,772 - 2,116,772 1912/1 3 4,577,019 1,573,351 6,150,370 1917/1 8 5,831,742 1,813,428 7,645,170 1922/2 3 6,279,523 2,113,681 8,393,204 1927/2 8 8,900,079 2,449,558 11,349,637 The Capital Cost of the Undertaking is - Item Cost Permanent way £79,456 Electrical equipment £19,343 Tramcars £40,333 Depot £14,167 Miscellaneous £10,008 TOTAL £163,307

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