title: Sheerness and District Tramways
text: # Sheerness and District Tramways
  
  The Sheerness and District Tramways operated a tramway service in Sheerness between 1903 and 1917.
  
  ## History
  
  The system opened on 9 April 1903 with a depot located at TQ 9314 7348 near Sheerness East railway station. There were 12 tramcars obtained from Brush Electrical Engineering Company of Loughborough.
  
  In 1904, tramcars 9-12 were sold to the City of Birmingham Tramways Company Ltd.
  
  ## Closure
  
  This was the first electric tramway to close in Britain. There was a shortage of spares for its German-manufactured Siemens and Halske overhead equipment during the First World War.
  
  Tramcars 1 to 8 were sold to Darlington Corporation Light Railways in 1917.
  
  