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Colchester Trams ran on 3' 6" gauge track from 1904 to 1928-29, when they were replaced by buses. At 24 years this is not a bad record for this form of transport that came and went from the British scene rather quickly. How much more of the original investment could have been released if the life of the systems had been rather longer. Or is this just another example of the British wasting capital with changes of public policy? '