[11] For the next year, the Duders ran a reduced seasonal service on the line, closing during the winter months and sending the horses out to graze on Browns Island.

[2] Repeated attempts by the borough to reinstate the service or have the tracks removed went nowhere, and the Duders failed to maintain the right-of-way despite demands and threats that they would lose the franchise if they did not do so.

[12] The tracks were removed in late December 1894 and in many places Beach Road, now King Edward Parade, was widened to absorb the former right-of-way.

Hansen travelled to London to find recruit financiers for the venture, eventually persuading the British Electric Traction Company to fund it.

Hansen acquired the franchise rights from William Gentry Bingham and the rights-of-way currently used by a horsetram system from Max Epstein.

[15] Following Hansen's failure, the borough council attached a £500 deposit to any future attempt to acquire the franchise rights for a tramway.

Napier refused to pay, but in 1906, Edward Robert Nolan Russell, a solicitor, put down a deposit.

The proposed route included branches to Narrow Neck, Stanley Bay, Cheltenham Beach, and the Takapuna Race Track.

Had it been built, the route would have likely connected with the Takapuna Tramways & Ferry Company's system, which would run between Bayswater and Milford from 1910 to 1927.