The days when Kirkcaldy’s trams carried 35,000 passengers
There was a time when Kirkcaldy High Street heard the clatter of the trams on a daily basis.
This picture, from 1902, shows work under way to lay the lines along the main shopping street.
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The work cost of £37,000.
Such was the public’s interest that, in the first week operation, the trams carried the 35,000 passengers – the population of Kirkcaldy twice over!
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Hide AdThe trams ran until 1931 when, as a result of competition from buses and ever increasing maintenance costs, the service was discontinued.
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