Tram Tickets (1940's).

The tramways began operating in 1872 and the very last line closed in 1959. The last tram in the city proper left Nelson's Pillar in 1949. The tram barely made it, as The Irish Times reported: "Tram No. 252, the last one, had struggled free from the clutches of thousands of souvenir hunters in Westmoreland Street and had set out for Blackrock; two hours later it crawled into it's home depot. The tram's seats were gone, windows smashed, side panelling ripped away, still accompanied by a roaring, singing, hooting crowd, which had to be forcibly restrained by police reinforcements from breaking into the Blackrock depot."