Tram on Bridge Street Dublin, 1907 vintage photo.
Vintage Dublin tram on Bridge Street in 1907, displaying adverts for Dennys Limerick Ham & Nestles Milk. The Four Courts building in background across the River liffey.
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Dublin tram services within the city and suburbs began in 1872. Initially deploying horse drawn carriages, by 1901 much of the tram network was electrified. At that time the largest tram operator was Dublin United Tramways, following a series of company mergers. From the mid 1920's popularity and profitability of trams declined with the increase in motorised traffic, particularly buses.
Tram on Bridge Street Dublin, 1907 vintage photo.
Vintage Dublin tram on Bridge Street in 1907, displaying adverts for Dennys Limerick Ham & Nestles Milk. The Four Courts building in background across the River liffey.
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From The Dublin Tramways by H. Fayle. December 1940. Modern Tramway publication.
In the mid-1920s with increasing motor traffic the Dublin Tramways Company started running buses. In most cases these services operated for some of the distance over the same routes as trams. About this time too the company faced competition from a number of smaller bus companies operating over the trams routes at cut-throat fares. The Dublin public having shown a preference for buses, it was decided to give up the tramways as and when the track required renewal. The last trams in Dublin city ran on July 9, 1949. The Howth Head tram remained the single operating line until 1959. |
Dublin United Tramways poster listing routes for their tram service throughout north & south Dublin city in 1896. |
Vintage photos depicting Dublin trams in city locations from early 1900's to 1940's.
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 Photo of Bogie Electric tram, Dublin 1931. From Modern Tramways Dec. 1940. |
Electric trams on Dublin Quay, still image from 1915 Dublin video. |
The Milltown viaduct bridge was originally built for trains on the Harcourt Street railway line until the station closed in the late 1950's. The Luas Green Line which opened in 2004 now crosses the 9 arch viaduct on its south city route.
Luas Tram crossing Milltown at nine arches viaduct, Dartry in South Dublin. Original Dublin photograph 2005 © irelandposters.com 
Dublin postcard view c1909 of Viaduct & river at Milltown. |
 A vintage horse tram pictured on Mount Street, Dublin, August 2008. |
The vintage "Modern Tramway" publication was somewhat prophetic as regards the gradual disappearance of trams from Dublin city. The following is from their feature article on Electric Tramways of Ireland published in December 1940. "With the possible disappearance of the last tram at the end of the present year, Éire will be left without a single electric tramway or railway beyond the Great Northern Railway Company's Howth line....One cannot help feeling that it is an anomalous state of affairs for a country which has to import all its oil, and is moreover provided with plenty of electric power from two hydro-electric schemes on the Shannon and Liffey. Perhaps, too late, the Dublin public will regret the disappearance of their tramway system which served them so well for nearly 70 years" In 2004 electric trams returned to the streets of Dublin with the Luas Red & Green tram lines. |
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Made in 1959 the short film Once Upon a Tram features the Howth Tram travelling to Sutton County Dublin, with commentary by Cyril Cusack.
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