Date: 02/05/2020

It's well over 80 years since the celebrated Falkirk trams completed their final trip round the circular and Inspector Walton steered the last 'car' decked with a floral wreath into the Larbert Road depot.

After 31 successful years the financial power of the bus companies was just too much to resist and within a few months most of the apparatus - the overhead lines and rails - had vanished and the fleet of tramcars was sold off, fetching a miserly £50 apiece.

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Fond memories of Falkirks tram car service

Falkirk Herald

Looking back on more than three decades of tram cars in our communities