trams

Model Tram

Model of West Ham Tram Car No. 119, on the Wanstead Flats to Canning Town route.


This working scale model is of a Standard Four Wheel, single truck, double deck, covered top tramcar, constructed in the works of West Ham Corporation's Tramways, Greengate Street, Plaistow. It was exhibited as a working model at the Wembley Exhibition, 1924 and the Model Engineer Exhibition in 1938. It had also been on static display at the Science Museum, South Kensington and for many years at the former Old Station Museum at North Woolwich. A full size West Ham tram can be seen at the London Transport Museum, Covent Garden.


(Image:© Michael Booth)

Model Tram

Tramway Map

Route map of West Ham Corporation trams dated 1925. It gives the fares for the various distances expressed in route miles and yards travelled.

Tramway Map

London Transport Tram 260

Electric Tramcar 260, opposite St Johns Church Stratford Broadway, destination East Ham Town Hall, via Portway, Plashet Road and Plashet Grove.


Photo 10/8/1937

London Transport Tram 260

West Ham Trams - 3

Tram No 291 at rest in Stratford waiting its next turn of duty. Route 1A will take it from Stratford Broadway along Portway, Plashet Road and Green Street, terminating at the Boleyn.

West Ham Trams - 3

West Ham Trams -2

County Borough of West Ham Tramways Department - Souvenir Brochure of the formal opening of the new tramways offices and depot in Grengate Street, Plaistow on 25th October, 1906

West Ham Trams -2

Tram Depot, Greengate Street

West Ham Corporation built its new tram shed in Greengate Street, opened in 1906. 

Tram Depot, Greengate Street

Former West Ham Tram

This handsome  tram was formerly part of West Ham Corporation's fleet.

Former West Ham Tram
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