On 2nd May 1999 - the very last (special) train over the Weymouth Quay branch / Weymouth Harbour Railway and a good write-up summary on WikiPedia.  With an element of sadness, I am posting this memorial "On this day" thread in Railway History as I don't think it's practical for it to come back in any form

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weymouth_Harbour_Tramway

There are double plus plenty of threads on the forum on this - I am just rushing around to place a starter on this and a couple of other threads this morning.   Unquestionably no longer a Town Councillor, I still / now have a huge amount of stuff to do and catch up on that I have been remiss in doing over the past 4 years ....

This is what the tramway route might have been! An 1856 scheme put forward by the WSWR. The source is a hand drawn map in the National Archives that I came across when researching the line's history.

john Lucking in his book on the Weymouth Harbour Tramway (OPC 1986) writes this:-

the meeting of the Council resolved to render assistance to facilitate the conveyance of goods from the quay to the station except having a tramroad in front of the Esplanade or in the public streets(p7)

This plan explains why that decision was made. Imagine 1850s Weymouth with trains along the sea front!