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Tramway Map and Stations added
Bombay Trams commenced in 1874 as a horse-drawn tram service in Bombay operated by the Bombay Tramway Company. In 1905, a newly formed concern, The Bombay Electric Supply & Tramways Company Limited, bought the Bombay Tramway Company and the first electrically operated tram-car appeared on Bombay's roads in 1907. The service closed on 31 March 1964
[[File:Bombay Tram Network Map.jpg|right|thumb| Bombay Tram Network Map, 1958]][[File:Bombay Tram Stations.png|right|thumb| Bombay Tram Stations, 1958]]
==History==
In January 1865 an American import-export firm , Stearn, Hobart & Co, applied to the Bombay Municipality to lay and operate a tramway system within the city, and was granted a Deed of Agreement on 28 Feb 1865. However, the end of the American Civil War had placed Bombay’s textile industry into crisis, which stopped all progress on the tramway scheme. Five years later the American firm challenged the Municipality who maintained the Agreement was not binding
