title: Yorkshire (Woollen District) Electric Tramways
text: # Yorkshire (Woollen District) Electric Tramways
  
  The Yorkshire (Woollen District) Electric Tramways operated a tramway service in Dewsbury between 1903 and 1934.
  
  ## History
  
  Under the Spen Valley Light Railways Order of 1901 British Electric Traction set up the Yorkshire (Woollen District) Electric Tramways.
  
  The company established a tramway network centred on Dewsbury with branches to Cleckheaton, Birkenshaw, Ravensthorpe, Thornhill and Birstal.
  
  Operations were replaced by the buses of British Electric Traction-owned Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Company.
  
  ## Closure
  
  Services ended on 31 October 1934.
  
  