Trams galore

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Fri 15 Jan, 2010 4:11 pm

Cardiarms wrote: These trams are all very well but when you're looking for the Guiness Clock they donj't half get in the way: weren't they called lance coporals?

blackprince · Post by **blackprince** » Fri 15 Jan, 2010 7:03 pm

blackprince wrote: If you are keen on trams and have not looked here you are in for a treat.http://www.tramway.co.uk/smx/photos/If you use the lower search engine box to specify the location as requested Uk England Leeds: you will find there are 1648 leeds tram photos in the archiveThen use the top search box to narrow it down further eg by typing in Armley, Bramley, Half Mile Lane etc. Blakey: note you can look at your favourite Felthams in Leeds or London.Enjoy. Captions to some of the tram photos which come up when you use "Harehills" as the search term say the photo was taken on Harehills Lane. One is correctly labelled "approaching Harehills Lane" but it doesn't say on which road. In fact I think most of them are on the reserved track on York Road - approaching Harehills Lane. I sent this in as a correction to Crich , along with a lot of other comments and corrections, a few years ago but the database has not been revised.There is a list of |Leeds tram routes and even more tram photos on http://dewi.ca/trains/leeds/index.htmlApologies if I have mentioned this link before but it is, imho a good source of Leeds photos .

peterg · Post by **peterg** » Fri 15 Jan, 2010 7:33 pm

I am building a model railway layout and have bought stuff from Hattons in Liverpool. Whenever I see anything related to Leeds in their catalogue I get it. Thus I have a Bedford Van, the Q bus, the Ledgard Bus and the Feltham Tram with the Crossgates destination. I lived in Crossgates for just over 20 years.I checked the Dewi page some time ago and there is a picture of a Feltham tram at Crossgates terminus and, passing behind the tram, is a man who I swear is my father. My children agree with me, but my sisters would not commit themselves.Does anyone have memories of some very old double deck open fronted trams (the portion over the driver was open) which only seemed to come out in the middle of winter when the weather was freezing? I am talking of the war years (1943-45).

blackprince · Post by **blackprince** » Fri 15 Jan, 2010 8:41 pm

peterg wrote: I am building a model railway layout and have bought stuff from Hattons in Liverpool. Whenever I see anything related to Leeds in their catalogue I get it. Thus I have a Bedford Van, the Q bus, the Ledgard Bus and the Feltham Tram with the Crossgates destination. I lived in Crossgates for just over 20 years.I checked the Dewi page some time ago and there is a picture of a Feltham tram at Crossgates terminus and, passing behind the tram, is a man who I swear is my father. My children agree with me, but my sisters would not commit themselves.Does anyone have memories of some very old double deck open fronted trams (the portion over the driver was open) which only seemed to come out in the middle of winter when the weather was freezing? I am talking of the war years (1943-45). I don't remember them myself but there are photos of them in the various archives above & Leodis.Open balcony carseghttp://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIde ... 1_77259463

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sat 16 Jan, 2010 1:16 am

Trojan wrote: Cardiarms wrote: These trams are all very well but when you're looking for the Guiness Clock they donj't half get in the way: weren't they called lance coporals? They were indeed Trojan and they were the "bees knees" in style and comfort. There were only three, 272/3/4, and they spent their whole careers from new at Headingley Depot.

BIG N · Post by **BIG N** » Sat 16 Jan, 2010 3:27 am

Trojan wrote: I've been posting about it on another forum. What started me looking is there is a poster on the wall of the Rovers in Corrie with trams on, a lot like Twilight, but not Twilight. But I don't think it's any of these. Won't swear by this (but I will check it out) but I seem to remember a friend of mine called Alan Ball telling me he supplied that print on the wall in the Rovers.If any of you guys attend model railway shows Alan is the guy who is at shows like Leeds York and Wakefield with a large selection of transport pictures - not only railways but also trams, buses, narrow boats, ships etc etc.Will check with him and if he did I will find out what the print is of.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sat 16 Jan, 2010 9:20 am

peterg wrote: I am building a model railway layout and have bought stuff from Hattons in Liverpool. Whenever I see anything related to Leeds in their catalogue I get it. Thus I have a Bedford Van, the Q bus, the Ledgard Bus and the Feltham Tram with the Crossgates destination. I lived in Crossgates for just over 20 years.I checked the Dewi page some time ago and there is a picture of a Feltham tram at Crossgates terminus and, passing behind the tram, is a man who I swear is my father. My children agree with me, but my sisters would not commit themselves.Does anyone have memories of some very old double deck open fronted trams (the portion over the driver was open) which only seemed to come out in the middle of winter when the weather was freezing? I am talking of the war years (1943-45). I have a memory of them but not in Leeds, in Bradford. I don't remember ever seeing open fronted trams in Leeds in my lifetime. My memories of the Leeds trams just reach back to the days before they were red.

tilly · Post by **tilly** » Sat 16 Jan, 2010 6:12 pm

Trojan wrote: BLAKEY wrote: Trojan wrote: Anyone interested in trams might be interested in thishttp://www.chantryfineart.co.uk/ptrams.htmlIt has "Twilight of the trams" on Lower Briggate, which I suppose most of us on here have in one form or another. But there are quite a few other tram pictures. Magnificent pictures Trojan. I have a great deal of admiration for the skill and the "feel" of these artists. In their own different way these pictures capture the atmosphere of places and times at least as well as scientifically accurate clear photographs. "Twilight of the Trams" is a partcularly well loved masterpiece among the local tram fraternity. I've been posting about it on another forum. What started me looking is there is a poster on the wall of the Rovers in Corrie with trams on, a lot like Twilight, but not Twilight. But I don't think it's any of these. Hi Trojan the picture on the wall in the Rovers is by someone called Don Breckon dated 79 i have the same picture in my lounge it looks like Manchester to me.One of the trams has 30 and East Hill as the destination.

peterg · Post by **peterg** » Sun 17 Jan, 2010 6:30 pm

The open balcony trams are the ones I meant. Thanks for the photo.

blackprince · Post by **blackprince** » Tue 19 Jan, 2010 11:49 pm

peterg wrote: The open balcony trams are the ones I meant. Thanks for the photo. This photo gives some dates for the open balcony tramsthis one was still inservice in 1946 & withdrawn in 1947.http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL