Birmingham Trams & Trolleybuses

An evocative collection of films depicting Birmingham's trams and trolleybuses. Birmingham possessed the largest 3'6" gauge tramway in Britain and was unusual in that there were no through routes crossing the city centre. Reserved track extensions to suburban housing estates were constructed between 1919 and 1928. The last new route, to Fort Dunlop, opened in 1930, the same year in which the final new tram was delivered. Trolleybuses, which replaced trams on the Nechells route as early as 1922, never found total favour and the Coventry Road routes were replaced by buses in 1951, two years before the last trams ran into Miller Street depot in July 1953. This DVD revives memories of Birmingham's unique narrow cobalt blue and primrose double-decker trams, when they offered an excellent service on well-maintained track at reasonable fares.