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proposed to be re-constructed for that system, and on the new tramways
in Garratt Lane, &c. ; and stated that in the event of the lines
being constructed as proposed and being ready for working before
electrical power was available from the Greenwich generating station,
the County Council Committee would carefully consider the Borough
Council's suggestion that a service of horse-drawn cars should be run
on the Garratt Lane lines. In reply, the County Council was referred
to its letter of the 8th July, 1903, from which it appeared that the
tramways could be constructed for the conduit system approximately
by the following dates, viz.:-(a) Tooting Tramway Terminus to
Earlsfield railway station, 30th June. 1904; (b) Earlsfield railway
station to York Road, Wandsworth, 31st October, 1904 ; and informed
that the Borough Council was anxious that the proposed tramways in
Red Lion Street, South Street, Garratt Lane, and Defoe Road, should
be constructed at once, and on the conduit system, and was of opinion
that until sufficient electrical power could be obtained from the
Greenwich generating station horse-drawn cars should be run on that
route.
91. The County Council having further considered the subject ill
connection with other tramways which that Council is authorised to
construct, now proposes to adopt an underground conduit system of
electrical traction for the following tramways, viz.:—
(a) The existing tramways from North Street, Wandsworth, via
York Road, Battered Park Road, &c., to Westminster Bridge.
(b) The new tramways from York Road, Wandsworth, at its
junction with North Street, via York Road, Red Lion Street, South Street,
Garratt Lane, and Defoe Road to join the newly-constructed lines at
Tooting.
(c) The new tramways from Queen Street, Hammersmith, to a
point in Lower Richmond Road near the junction of that road with the
approach to Putney Bridge ;
and has applied to the Board of Trade for its approval of the system.
92. From the plans and description submitted by the County
Council, it appears that the system is practically the same as that
adopted for the Westminster to Tooting tramways. Sufficient information
has not, however, been given to the Borough Council as
to the positions and dimensions of the feeder pillars and the positions
of the levers for working the points, and fuller particulars have been