LCT Control cabinet

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Thu 14 Apr, 2011 9:01 am

I think this may have been covered before but I've tried the search with no success.....There's an old LCT control cabinet on the old Carnegie College campus, now the met. Did it have a tram service off Otley Road?It's the dark shadow in the centre:http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?client=sa ... 3&t=h&z=21

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Thu 14 Apr, 2011 9:53 am

Cardiarms wrote: There's an old LCT control cabinet on the old Carnegie College campus, now the met. Did it have a tram service off Otley Road? I'm a bit confused here (nowt fresh) Cardiarms - is this the former Becketts Park College at the back of St. Chad's Church ?? If so there was no tram service off Otley Road. We're all so used to the number 1 bus from Holt Park/Lawnswood to Beeston that its easy to forget that the tram service ran to City Square, but then via Boar Lane/Briggate to Chapeltown, Moortown, Roundhay and Harehills. If you can please confirm where this control box is I'd be interested to have a look at it.

jim · Post by **jim** » Thu 14 Apr, 2011 10:06 am

Hi Blakey, if you use the vertical slider zoom control to the left of the Google maps image and "dezoom" you will be able to identify the exact location. It is, as you suggest, the former Beckett's Park College.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Thu 14 Apr, 2011 11:48 am

jim wrote: Hi Blakey, if you use the vertical slider zoom control to the left of the Google maps image and "dezoom" you will be able to identify the exact location. It is as you suggest, the former Beckett's Park College. Many thanks jim - I'll be interested to go and have a look next time I've chance - I only live in Queenswood Drive but always busy with one thing and another - retired ten years next month and scarcely sat down since !!

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Thu 14 Apr, 2011 7:22 pm

Looks like this but painted black, scroll down:http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/Tags/leeds,trams

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Sat 16 Apr, 2011 7:18 pm

Any ideas? Were these cabinets used for anything else?Cheers.

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Mon 18 Apr, 2011 3:00 pm

Could it have been part of a wartime "branch line" from the main road when the college was used as a military hospital during World War II, then a Royal Army Medical Corps Training Centre? I've checked all my old maps and there's no such tramline shown, but perhaps it either wasn't needed in the end or never made it to a map.

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Mon 18 Apr, 2011 3:14 pm

I wouldn't have thought it was tram related. It will probably just be a black electric/telecoms Lucy box. There is what I imagine an exact replica on Mansion Lane, Roundhay Park herehttp://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Leeds+mansion+lane+&sll=53.799639,-1.549122&sspn=0.022913,0.057421&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Mansion+Ln,+Leeds+LS8+2,+United+Kingdom&ll=53.839792,-1.502552&spn=0.011446,0.02871&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=53.839798,-1.502353&panoid=BJ5lTWKtX36sK-volHLjXw&cbp=12,213.05,,2,9.75They look very similar to tram cabinets, and were both made made by Lucy Co, Oxford.Sorry about the long URL. Snipurl doesn't seem to be working at the moment.

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Mon 18 Apr, 2011 4:13 pm

Phill_dvsn wrote: I wouldn't have thought it was tram related. It will probably just be a black electric/telecoms Lucy box. There is what I imagine an exact replica on Mansion Lane, Roundhay Park herehttp://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Leeds+mansion+lane+&sll=53.799639,-1.549122&sspn=0.022913,0.057421&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Mansion+Ln,+Leeds+LS8+2,+United+Kingdom&ll=53.839792,-1.502552&spn=0.011446,0.02871&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=53.839798,-1.502353&panoid=BJ5lTWKtX36sK-volHLjXw&cbp=12,213.05,,2,9.75They look very similar to tram cabinets, and were both made made by Lucy Co, Oxford.Sorry about the long URL. Snipurl doesn't seem to be working at the moment. I think you've probably solved the mystery there Phill, but I had high hopes for my wartime theory!

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Mon 18 Apr, 2011 5:40 pm

Here we go, hopefully, picture of LCT box: