I was born near a tram terminal and well remember the driver and conductor moving the electrical contact bar from the incoming to the return wires. The sparks would fly. And the sound of the conductor changing the seat backs so passengers always face the way they were travelling. Amazing that trams have made a come back!
Another example of a forward-looking and modern tramway management that suddenly caved into the road lobby in 1959 (Sheffield too, in 1960). Wonderful cars and reserved tracks too. They even took and loved London Transport's Felthams.
At 6:48 that's a famous picture shewing an LPTB HR2 precariously perched on a trailer being towed up the AI from London to Leeds, with the equal-wheel trucks on the lorry itself.
When council leaders had some foresight.... providing Leeds with the trolley busses and trams ..... Today the city is desperate for a new clean low cost transport system.....
Well from the 80s they drew up plans for super trams in Leeds, and even in the early 00s (when I was in High School) they created a website to show simulations and CGI videos of the planned trams going around Leeds Centre but apparently it all fell through because the money to fund it got sucked up by bosses and skinted the venture completely, basically screwing Leeds over. I could be wrong but lemme know if you know what happened. Some corrupt dickheads were involved though....😢
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I was born near a tram terminal and well remember the driver and conductor moving the electrical contact bar from the incoming to the return wires. The sparks would fly. And the sound of the conductor changing the seat backs so passengers always face the way they were travelling. Amazing that trams have made a come back!
Another example of a forward-looking and modern tramway management that suddenly caved into the road lobby in 1959 (Sheffield too, in 1960). Wonderful cars and reserved tracks too. They even took and loved London Transport's Felthams.
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At 6:48 that's a famous picture shewing an LPTB HR2 precariously perched on a trailer being towed up the AI from London to Leeds, with the equal-wheel trucks on the lorry itself.
When council leaders had some foresight.... providing Leeds with the trolley busses and trams .....
Today the city is desperate for a new clean low cost transport system.....
Well from the 80s they drew up plans for super trams in Leeds, and even in the early 00s (when I was in High School) they created a website to show simulations and CGI videos of the planned trams going around Leeds Centre but apparently it all fell through because the money to fund it got sucked up by bosses and skinted the venture completely, basically screwing Leeds over. I could be wrong but lemme know if you know what happened. Some corrupt dickheads were involved though....😢