[2][3] It is Great Britain's only remaining cable-operated street tramway, and one of only a few surviving in the world, and it is owned by Conwy County Borough Council.

The freight cars were for the carriage of goods and parcels, as stipulated in the tramway's original act of Parliament, but were withdrawn from service by 1911.

[5][6] The line suffered a serious accident and consequent financial difficulties in the 1930s, resulting in its sale in 1935 to the Great Orme Railway company.

In 1949, Llandudno Urban District Council exercised its power, granted by the original act of parliament, to buy the line.

As a result, in 2001, the entire Halfway station, its control room and its power plant were completely rebuilt and re-equipped.

Passengers must change trams at the Halfway stop as the upper and lower funicular sections are physically separate.

[7] The Great Orme Tramway refers to all its fixed boarding and alighting locations as stations (not tram stops).

[1]: 9  Three others, all request stops, are currently disused, namely Black Gate, Ty'n-y-Coed, and Killen's Hill stations.

The electric motors driving the cables that propel the cars are in the central building of the stop, as are the winchmen who control them.

[8] Halfway stop is also the location of the engineering depot, with access for trams from both upper and lower sections.

Before the introduction of this radio system, messages were passed using an overhead wire telegraph and trolley poles on the tram cars.