page_title: Taunton Tramway
section_title: Engineering
hierarchical_section_title: Taunton Tramway / Engineering
caption_attribution_description: English: A lamp post in Greenway Crescent, Taunton, Somerset. It was originally used to support the overhead power wires of the Taunton Tramway.
context_page_description: The Taunton Tramway was an electric street tramway in Taunton, the county town of Somerset, England. It operated a fleet of six narrow gauge tramcars on a single route of 1.66 miles between 1901 and 1921 when the tramway closed due to a dispute over the cost of electricity.
context_section_description: The track was laid to 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge. The tightest curve was 35 feet (10.67 m) and steepest gradient 1 in 25 (4%).
  Electricity was supplied by Taunton Corporation from a generating station in St James Street. Ten of the cast iron standards that used to carry the overhead line have survived as lamp posts, although none of them are in their original locations. Nine can be found in Greenway Crescent, not far from the Kingston Road terminus, the tenth is in West Street, Bishops Lydeard. The last tram poles have now been placed in store for possible re-erection in the town centre.
caption: An old tram standard now used as a lampost in Greenway Crescent
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