page_title: Cork Electric Tramways and Lighting Company
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Cork Electric Tramways and Lighting Company / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the Cork City Electric Tramways
context_page_description: The Cork Electric Tramways and Lighting Company operated a passenger tramway service in Cork between 1898 and 1931.
context_section_description: The Cork Electric Tramways and Lighting Company, was a subsidiary of British Thomson-Houston, a major electrical contracting company. The contractor for the permanent way was William Martin Murphy who later became chairman of the company. The power station was built by Edward Fitzgerald (later Sir Edward Fitzgerald, 1st Baronet) and the engineer for the system was Charles Hesterman Merz.
  The gauge of the tramway was 900 mm (2 ft 11 ⁷⁄₁₆ in) gauge, selected to allow trains from the 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge Cork and Muskerry Light Railway and the Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway to connect using the tram lines.
  Services started on 22 December 1898 when the company had 17 cars in operation. Over the Christmas period, weekend traffic was heavy and there were some minor accidents and injuries, including some passengers who, having been celebrating Christmas, fell from the tramcars.
caption: Map of Cork City Electric Tramways
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