Leeds city transport tramways?Guess were leeds
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Phill_dvsn
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The link for 399 keeps vanishing lol.I'll try again here
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Trojan
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Phill_dvsn wrote: Is anyone in the know about the Leeds tram liveries?What years they were carried by the trams e.t.c.I've been down to Crich for a project i'm working on about the Leeds trams. (Hopefully it will be ready at the end of the week)There is the older Yellow and brown/chocolate carried by 399 hereThere's the blue and cream (I seem to think was the livery before the trams went red)Thats carried on 345 herehttp://www.tramway.co.uk/images/345%20old.JPG(Although it looks a bit rough there-It's gleaming like a new pin these days)Then there's the last livery of Red and cream carried by 180 herehttp://www.tramway.co.uk/images/Tram%20Fleet/L ... 180.jpgAny help would be great.I'm sure i'll have a few more puzzles to ask too.Cheers guys! I don't remember the yellow brown and chocolate, I do remember them being blue - I wasn't very old though. It seemed to me that the change happened with the advent of the Felthams from London. So if the end of the trams in London can be dated so can the change to red in Leeds.
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BLAKEY
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The livery complications of the Leeds trams and buses present a very complex study in themselves - not only in terms of chief colours but in such details as fleet number typefaces and destination displays etc etc.Certain it is though that the arrival of the first ex London Feltham, which ran in Leeds in full London livery, decided the issue in favour of red trams and green buses. Ferocious and determined arguments between councillors and Transport Department officials took place during the Spring of 1950 before the issue was "settled."The chief argument was that there would be enormous difficulties in covering the London red with Leeds blue - involving many coats - and that it would "show through" in no time at all. Whether or not there is any scientific basis for this who knows ??, but the rest, as they say, is history.
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Brunel
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Took a walk on what is left of the Middleton Light Railway, not to be confused with the Middleton Railway.This was the tram route through Middleton Woods.http://snipurl.com/fmc27
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BLAKEY
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Brunel wrote: Took a walk on what is left of the Middleton Light Railway, not to be confused with the Middleton Railway.This was the tram route through Middleton Woods.http://snipurl.com/fmc27 Have walked in there in times long ago and I remain always so sorry that I never had a tram ride through the woods - a very serious omission, but I did live in lIkley/Burley in W when the trams were coming to the end so maybe that was why.Not a lot of folk seem to know that the tramway was originally a light railway built to transport the materials to Middleton for the building of the enormous estate, and upon completion of the houses was adapted for the passenger tram service.
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