Editing Chester (section)

===Trams===
Chester had a tram service during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It ran from Saltney, on the Welsh border in the west, to Chester General station and then to Tarvin Road and Great Boughton. It featured the narrowest gauge trams (3'&nbsp;6") in mainland Britain, due to an act of Parliament that deemed they must have the least obstructive route possible.{{Citation needed|date=December 2007}}

The tramway was established in 1871 by Chester Tramways Company. It was horse-drawn until it was taken over by the council in 1903. Renamed as [[Chester Corporation Tramways]], it was reconstructed to the 3'6" gauge and electrified with overhead cables. The tramway was closed in February 1930, a fate experienced by most other systems in the UK. All that remains are small areas of uncovered track inside the former bus depot, and a few tram-wire supports attached to buildings on Eastgate/Foregate Street. However, substantial sections of the track remain buried beneath the current road surface.

Chester electric tram number 4, built by [[G.F. Milnes & Co.]] in 1903, has been preserved by [[RAF Hooton Park|Hooton Park Trust]] and is currently undergoing restoration.<ref>{{Cite web |access-date=2 May 2022 |title=Chester's last surviving electric tram – Car No. 4 |url=https://www.facebook.com/chestertram4 | website=Facebook }}</ref>