ROUTE & REPUTATION

Route & Reputation

Building the Tramway

The Tramcars

Uniforms

End of the Line

The Rattler Trail
It was by reputation the most dangerous tramcar service in the British Isles, due to the length of its route, and the rise and fall of the countryside it had to negotiate. The line ran from Ripley Market Place to Codnor, Loscoe, Heanor, Langley Mill, eastwood, Kimberley, Cinderhill, Basford and then on to the terminus at Upper Parliament Street in Nottingham.

The original Notts & Derbys Tramways Compay Bill of 1902 was an ambitious application which proposed the building of 79 miles of track to link together the tramway systems of Nottingham, Derby and Ilkeston. However, when passed the following year the Act only authorized the construction of 39 miles of route, of which eventually only some 11 miles were laid, being the section from Ripley to Cinderhill, at which point it connected with the tracks of the Nottingham Corporation Tramway. The firm of Balfour, Beatty and Company provided the capital from its genereating station at Ilkeston