A postcard commemorating the last steam tram to Heywood on 20 September 1905.The small steam engines used to draw tram trailers were strange looking things, because regulations at the time required all moving parts to be covered.
This also meets the requirements of the challenge I lay down a while ago to find photographs of workers in uniform.
Trams started out as horse-drawn and were an efficient form of transport as two horses could draw a tram along smooth rails that would require three horses to pull over a cobbled street.
When steam trains started to become popular, steam was thought to be the answer to everything and so these steam locomotives started to pull trams. It was a similar engine that inspired the Reverend W Awdry to create Toby the Tram Engine to join Thomas and his friends.
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