Leeds city transport tramways?Guess were leeds

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Wed 25 Mar, 2009 2:22 pm

Secret Leeds is great lol :-)I found a rusty old box last week.Realised it was Leeds city tramways.Then we get some wonderful recollection, pictures and stories to make this a real interesting thread!Great stuff

Post by **chameleon** » Wed 25 Mar, 2009 8:30 pm

BLAKEY wrote: chameleon wrote: Certainly was - remeber those hard seat backs well but strangely more comfortable than a bus jerking over every lump in the road! I couldn't agree more Chameleon - another subject I know, so I won't "go on and on", but the abominable standard of design and manufacture of the much vaunted "beautiful new buses" has me baffled and upset. OK, ghastly bright interior colours in funereal purple and garish turquoise and bright lighting - BUT inadequate structure resulting in thumping and thudding and rattling when going over even a matchstick so to speak even after a few weeks in service. Rear suspension on these newer models (double deckers especially) is grossly inadequate for the job.To return to this topic though, providing the track was well maintained the trams gave a very acceptable ride, and models were being developed which had splendid comfortable seats - like the ex London "Felthams" for example - and four other ex London cars we had here - the three HR2 class trams (277/8/9) and the famous London number 1 (301 in Leeds). Acquisition of more HR2s was sadly scuttled by that little so and so with a moustache and slicked down black hair !! Blakey I was unfortunate in my very youthful years to suffer terribley from travel sickness - half way to town on a bus and... that was that, tram however, sweet as a bird, no problems

Brunel · Post by **Brunel** » Wed 25 Mar, 2009 9:29 pm

LS1 wrote: Thinking about it, is there also one of these boxes on Mansion Lane, just where the grass starts, behind the wall after the car park of the Roundhay Fox? Sorry to disappoint you all, but I don't think the cabinet on Mansion Ln.had any connection (sorry for that) with L.C.T.http://picasaweb.google.com/ikbrunel/Ma ... OS-3pjJ5gE#

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Wed 25 Mar, 2009 9:46 pm

Trojan wrote: BLAKEY wrote: Trojan wrote: BLAKEY wrote: Also at Crich are several other Leeds cars including one of the two purple single deckers, new in Coronation year 1953, which would have been the forerunners of a large and revolutionary fleet had the axe not fallen.. Was one of them built by Charles Roberts of Horbury Junction? And was the other ex Sunderland? No Trojan, not quite.The two purple ones which were brand new in 1953 were built at the famous Charles H. Roe of Crossgates, numbers 601/602. The bodies were identical, but there were mechanical differences for evaluation purposes. The ex Sunderland one, 600, was intended for all sorts of experimental use but, like the two new ones, sadly spent much of its life on the very short route 25 tio Hunslet. It must be the Blackpool Coronation Railcars that were built at Charles Roberts then. If memory serves they looked very similar to the Leeds ones, but I suppose it's because they were contemporary. I also remember the cars running up through Middleton Woods, although I never rode on one. I lived on King Street in Morley and from our house we could see right across to Middleton. Once the cars had been painted red, on good days it was possible to see the little red specks traversing the space between The Pavilion (cinema) and St Pauls Church.

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Wed 25 Mar, 2009 10:02 pm

There's a nice collection of Leeds tram pics i came across the other day herehttp://www.dewi.ca/trains/leeds/index.html

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Wed 25 Mar, 2009 10:35 pm

Trojan wrote: I also remember the cars running up through Middleton Woods, although I never rode on one. I lived on King Street in Morley and from our house we could see right across to Middleton. Once the cars had been painted red, on good days it was possible to see the little red specks traversing the space between The Pavilion (cinema) and St Pauls Church. A little known fact is that the tramway through Middleton Woods was built first of all as a freight railway for the transportation of the building materials used in the construction of the huge estate before being adapted into a passenger facility.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Wed 25 Mar, 2009 10:50 pm

Phill_dvsn wrote: There's a nice collection of Leeds tram pics i came across the other day herehttp://www.dewi.ca/trains/leeds/index.html Thanks a lot for alerting us to this exceptional collection of "out of the ordinary" photos - they are wonderful. I was just a little interested though to read Dewi's comment about the cream East Yorkshire double decker coach to the effect that "several EYMS buses were MODIFIED to fit the Beverley Bar." They were all of course designed that way and built thus when new.

Post by **chameleon** » Wed 25 Mar, 2009 11:45 pm

BLAKEY wrote: Three pictures here full of nostalgia IF I can work out how to post them - I used to be able to do it but recently it has me foxed - here goes, and apologies in advance if still doesn't work. Nope I press the little star in the heading and then "add attachment" and then "browse" - then things come to a stop.Any clues please folks ?? Blakey just seen this, are you still having a problem? I did a quick how to do it thing for someone some time ago, I think it's about the third thread down in the Technical Support section.There's probs too if you use Firefox rather than IE - doesn't seem to like adding attachments on here

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Thu 26 Mar, 2009 6:28 pm

There's another puzzle for you to solve Brandy lol http://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/3388037558/

Si · Post by Si » Thu 26 Mar, 2009 6:32 pm

Is this competition just between you and Brandy, or can anyone have a go?