c. ccxxix), allowing Portsmouth Corporation to take over the existing horse-drawn tramways.

[2] The right to purchase the existing tramways was exercised in January 1901 and the system closed whilst it was converted to electric traction, being completed in September 1901.

However, horse traction did not end completely and continued on the Hilsea to Cosham line until May 1903.

[3] Through working later took place, until Southdown purchased the company in 1935, then shut the line down.

Unfortunately access to the new location is only by appointment, but some members of the collection have been used for free trips along Southsea seafront in the summer, since 2008.