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     *LEEDS TRAMS 1957-59 video*A good Leeds trams video on youtube can be seen herehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwXmp1aDppY    

An interesting video.In 57 I was 11. I remember seeing and riding on the trams, especially to Roundhay Park and Temple Newsam, but I dont remember seeing single decker trams. Which route did they run on?

Loiner in Cyprus wrote: An interesting video.In 57 I was 11. I remember seeing and riding on the trams, especially to Roundhay Park and Temple Newsam, but I dont remember seeing single decker trams. Which route did they run on? Leeds only had a few single deck trams. A little bit about them herehttp://snipurl.com/20sj8m    

[quotenick="Phill_dvsn"] Loiner in Cyprus wrote: An interesting video.In 57 I was 11. I remember seeing and riding on the trams, especially to Roundhay Park and Temple Newsam, but I dont remember seeing single decker trams. Which route did they run on? Leeds only had a few single deck trams. A little bit about them herehttp://snipurl.com/20sj8m    Thanks for the link. In the article it says they were used mainly on the Hunslet route. As a youngster from North Leeds I cannot remember ever going to or through Hunslet until I was 15, so that possibly explains why I dont remember single deck trams in Leeds.

Loiner in Cyprus wrote: Thanks for the link. In the article it says they were used mainly on the Hunslet route. As a youngster from North Leeds I cannot remember ever going to or through Hunslet until I was 15, so that possibly explains why I dont remember single deck trams in Leeds. I think Leeds had three single deck trams, 600, 601, 602.Although I'm sure Blakey, or one of the other knowledgeable transport chaps will correct me if I'm wrong The one in the video looks like it was the ex Sunderland tram 600. A little bit of info about it's Leeds history is herehttp://bustramtrolleybusarchive.fotopic.net/p41968165.html        

Old film......new sound.

Loiner in Cyprus wrote: An interesting video.In 57 I was 11. I remember seeing and riding on the trams, especially to Roundhay Park and Temple Newsam, but I dont remember seeing single decker trams. Which route did they run on? I recall using single decker white trams on York Road. They were in use only for a couple of years or so (if that) before the tram system closed in Leeds.The video was fascinating. Nice shots to the end of the tram track on York Road near the Shaftesbury Cinema and the split off York Road onto Selby Road at Halton Dial (with the Appleyard advertisement bridge).

Phill_dvsn wrote: Loiner in Cyprus wrote: Thanks for the link. In the article it says they were used mainly on the Hunslet route. As a youngster from North Leeds I cannot remember ever going to or through Hunslet until I was 15, so that possibly explains why I dont remember single deck trams in Leeds. I think Leeds had three single deck trams, 600, 601, 602.Although I'm sure Blakey, or one of the other knowledgeable transport chaps will correct me if I'm wrong The one in the video looks like it was the ex Sunderland tram 600. A little bit of info about it's Leeds history is herehttp://bustramtrolleybusarchive.fotopic.net/p41968165.html         600/601/602 indeed Phill-d. 600 was massively and very imaginatively rebuilt at Kirkstall Works from the Sunderland original, and is still at Crich although withdrawn sadly at present. Also there is 602 and that too is "off the road" for the forseeable future - but at least they are saved and for that we must be grateful.    Many folk assume that 601/2 were identical, but they were not by any means, and had many mechanical and electrical differences originally specified for comparison when a fleet of such cars was envisaged.