Tram, destination Accrington

[Royboy39]

Originally Posted by Bonnyboy

What actually happened to the old tram lines, did they get lifted or were new road surfaces just laid over them ?

Yep.....it would have been too expensive to dig them up.

[Bonnyboy]

Originally Posted by Royboy39

If you look at the link on transport history chapter 15 you will see what the cost of the lines were in those days...peanuts.
So why dig them up?

Read that a few times Royboy, I must have missed the track costing part. Noticed that the return per mile was just over 21 shillings per mile total. Quite a tidy sum back then I imagine. I assume that it was down to higher volumes of users back then, plus tram efficiency.

[mikeya]

Hello there

Slightly off beam this but some of you might be interested. I recently took some photos of old streetlamps in Bradford (I know - over the border!) that are being removed. They're old trolleybus overhead poles that went up, in Eccleshill, in 1934. The link is that apparently Bradford Corporation had bought some secondhand tram poles to resuse from the then abandoned Accrington Tramways - and certainly I'd always wondered why some of these lamp posts in Bradford are slightly slimmer than their usual ones.

Harrogate Road, Bradford, W Yorkshire - old street lamp on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Anyhow, its just a link with your town's tramways that were surprisingly still with us until this year. I'm amazed that those lamp posts were, effectively, a century old!

Regards, Mikey

[MikeA]

The TV programme's on again tonight on BBC4. THe 'Accrington' clip is about 22 minutes into the programme. Here's a link:
BBC Four - Timeshift, Series 11, The Golden Age of Trams: A Streetcar Named Desire

I expect there'll be a link to iPlayer before long - and there are repeats tomorrow and Saturday.

[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by MikeA

The TV programme's on again tonight on BBC4. THe 'Accrington' clip is about 22 minutes into the programme. Here's a link:
BBC Four - Timeshift, Series 11, The Golden Age of Trams: A Streetcar Named Desire

I expect there'll be a link to iPlayer before long - and there are repeats tomorrow and Saturday.

Doesn't look like Ellison St to me, looking down Ellison St, on the right after the Hippodrome there were no buildings, it was an open space known as Ellisons Tenement, the Accrington Pals held their first parades there in September 1914. When they were able they did their drills on the tenement, & when it was raining they drilled in the Tram shed. Another is the Factory chimneys in the back ground, are too far apart to be Hyndburn Mill or Holme Mill, & Ewbanks works Chimney would show to the left, of Hyndburn Mill, then there is the street sign on the end of the building, looks a short one, even shorter than Blake St.
If the tram is already in Accrington, carrying passengers, supposedly coming up Ellison St, why is the destination sign Accrington, surely it is coming from some where, & going to Accrington. Again if that is Ellison St, then the depot would be at the bottom, doubt if there would be any passengers on it, especially as one chap gets off the moving tram as it turns right, why would any one get on the tram at the Ellison St depot, and then jump off at the top.

Retlaw.

[cashman]

Was discussed a few years back somewhere on accyweb, If twas Ellison St or not, don't think there was a definitive answer.