 A depot with facilities for track maintenance was on Stepney Lane (Beverley Road route) was also opened in 1898, a street further north of the earlier Temple Street horse tram depot.By 1899 an electric power plant in Osborne Street supplying power to the tram system was operational and trams began running on Anlaby and Hessle Road on 5 July 1899.By 1900 lines along Holderness Road, Spring Bank (and an extension along Princes Avenue), and Beverley Road had been opened.