chrisf Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Thanks, Engineer_London. I've not been to Acton for a while and found it a tad depressing when I did. The depot may be gone but it's not forgotten. Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidR Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 This is the one that started the ball rolling in the other thread Keith referred to. Great Yarmouth, the "new" Art deco front was added in the mid 1930s after the end of trams in the town but the basic building is still the original tram depot still used as the towns bus depot. Of interest Kingsway models do a nice card kit of this bus garage I passed this place every day last summer, when teaching in GY. I thought it was a rather grand building, just for buses. The building next door is very 1930's and I think is dated: was that a ticket office, or waiting room? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted March 9, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2014 (edited) There's a restaurant in Saltaire (Bradford) that's called The Old Tramshed. It's in what I onow was a trolleybus depot but I'm not sure if it was actually a tram shed. Jamie Edited March 9, 2014 by jamie92208 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beatty 139 Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 A few more I am aware of in the West Midlands (or is it Greater Birmingham now?) Bilston, opposite the Library and Craft Gallery on Mount Pleasant Bilston The Fish depot at Amblecoat Stourbridge, now Laser Quest Washward Heath Depot, where Birmingham's last Fleetline was roped in. Now clad over as an ethnic supermarket but still there underneath. Kings Heath Car sheds, from steam tram days, the steam depot has gone but International Stock in Silver St is the Car Shed, you will need to go inside to see its history that its not a new structure. Just as a quick note the Aston Manor car Sheds that used to be the museum until Birmingham city councils money grabbing F*** up still has the steam tram loco sheds and yards next door that are used as a car garage. Hockley, now the new Bingley Hall, While it was still a bus garage you could still make out where the return wheel was for the Birmingham cable car, building has now been clad over so again history has been hidden. Hope that helps the list Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adanapress Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Vine Street bridge near Farringdon Station in London used to have 2 or 3 trolleybus poles still standing and i seem to recall some on the Silvertown Viaduct in east London. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stadman Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Possibly Camborne and Redruth depot https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.225666,-5.278291,3a,15y,3.71h,89.44t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sNU1DkF_Mp9TghLIUfG1c8g!2e0?hl=en Taken over by electricity company, picture looks like them although the book has limited views. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 9, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2014 Not a tram depot but Beresford Square in front of Woolwich Arsenal had tram tracks visible at least until the 80's. Then theres also the Kingsway tram tunnel. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted March 9, 2014 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2014 A few more I am aware of in the West Midlands (or is it Greater Birmingham now?) Bilston, opposite the Library and Craft Gallery on Mount Pleasant Bilston The Fish depot at Amblecoat Stourbridge, now Laser Quest Washward Heath Depot, where Birmingham's last Fleetline was roped in. Now clad over as an ethnic supermarket but still there underneath. Kings Heath Car sheds, from steam tram days, the steam depot has gone but International Stock in Silver St is the Car Shed, you will need to go inside to see its history that its not a new structure. Just as a quick note the Aston Manor car Sheds that used to be the museum until Birmingham city councils money grabbing F*** up still has the steam tram loco sheds and yards next door that are used as a car garage. Hockley, now the new Bingley Hall, While it was still a bus garage you could still make out where the return wheel was for the Birmingham cable car, building has now been clad over so again history has been hidden. Hope that helps the list Excellent. Some I had heard of others not. Washwood Heath depot had the distinction of also being a trolley bus depot, but not on a trolley bus route! The trolley buses for the Nechells routes had to travel along Saltley Road and Washwood Heath road via a tram route to the depot with one pole down and the return current via a skate in the tram track towed behind the bus! There wasn't even any extra wiring in the depot although there was a triangle for turning. The same situation applied if they needed to get to Kyott's Lake Road works, as it did to the Trollies from the Coventry Road routes, although their depot was fully wired. Birmingham's two trolley bus routes were not connected to each other either. Birmingham whilst being the first in Britain to replace a tram route with a trolley bus, never really took to them which they considered more to be a Railless tram, not an electric bus!. The trams outlived the trolleybuses in Birmingham by a couple of years, the only ones in Britain to do so. Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Savoyard Posted March 10, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 10, 2014 The current Oldham Depot, now owned by First Group was never a tram depot as I first thought and Red Devil was correct. I had mistaken the entrance of the old tram depot for that of the new bus depot in a photograph, having checked the book on Oldham Trams I realise my mistake. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted March 10, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 10, 2014 A few more I am aware of in the West Midlands (or is it Greater Birmingham now?) Hockley, now the new Bingley Hall, While it was still a bus garage you could still make out where the return wheel was for the Birmingham cable car, building has now been clad over so again history has been hidden. Hope that helps the list My Dad worked at Hockley in the Inspectors Office from 1939 to 1942. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herr Dienstleiter Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Pretty sure this bar on Corsica St just off Highbury Corner is an ex-tram depot. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.546229,-0.102066,3a,75y,67.61h,79.27t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1soPrGRB1kkP3Kc4IUzg9-lw!2e0 When I lived in the area it was called the Tramshed When I grew up in Highbury the track was still visible (early sixties) some cars laid over there to start the morning services apparently. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyewipe Jct Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Lincoln tram depot is still standing, albeit now coverted to a shop - not bad considering the system was closed in 1929... Lincoln tram shed History of Lincoln Corporation Tramways Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 10, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2014 The Hastings Tramways depot at Bulverhythe still survives. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1ngram Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Three tramsheds in Aberdeen still extant. Aberrdeen The one down at the Links is now the Satrosphere Science Exhibition: http://www.privatehousestays.com/l/Attractions/Satrosphere Nice cafe there. The Market Street one is now offices/cafe/gallery and, it would appear apartments to let: http://www.british-towns.net/scotland/north-east/aberdeen/aberdeen/aberdeen-apartments. (apologies for the useless photo but its the only one I could find and it shows only the very edge of the tramshed. The one at Queens Cross was transformed into Grampian Television (now Scottish Television) and though there are still rails etc on the ground inside (at least there were when i last visited twenty years ago) it is nigh on impossible to see anything of the old tramshed now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grampian_Television Headquarters at King Street now is FirstBus HQ and the tram sheds were demolished 5 or so years ago. Here is a short video: The frontage of the original barracks behind which the tramshed was is still there thoiugh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thirty2a Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 (edited) Norwood depot in West Norwood South London still very much there in use as self storage I belive. Edited March 10, 2014 by thirty2a Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beatty 139 Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 There are other bits and bobs around the black country I did not mention. Perry Park Road in Old Hill is possibly one of the largest Tramway earth works in the UK its a massive reverse curve climbing many feet, to avoid Waterfall Lane. A massive but short lived section of the route to Blackheath. On the corner of Reddal Hill Road and Halesowen Road is the former bank building the last two window bays of the building is the Tramway Waiting Room. While on the Dudley System, at the junction of Hungary Hill and Birmingham street is another odd little brick building with a bus shelter on the foot path, the brick building is another former tram waiting room for the Lye route. Not quite tramway but I wonder if the Guided Buses Only sign is still up at the end of Streetly Road, Erdington, I haven't been past for a year or two, but was always amazed it was still there and not in someones collection, having been liberated one night! Andy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beatty 139 Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Sorry to add some more! Walsall Depot, looks like the Tram shed may still be there, now as an industrial Estate since West Midlands travel shut it as a garage. and a gem of the West Midlands, The 'South Staffordshire Electric Tramways Generating Station' on the Darlaston Road, Pleck, Walsall, for many years the Chateau Pleck wine merchants, which always made me smile when passing the sign on the M6 if you know 'the Pleck' its main claim to fame are the Gas works and the young ladys who stood on the street corners around it! I think that's my west midlands tram relic knowledge exhausted for a bit, although it keeps appearing out of the ground when road works are going on, I noticed quite a bit coming to light when the A38/Longbridge Lane junction was being done a couple of years back. Andy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted March 10, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2014 I haven't looked recently but the Rothwell depot of the West Riding Tramways system is still in existence at the junction of Wood Lane and the A61 just south of Leeds. It closed in I think 1933 and was on the route from Thwaite Gate (The south eastern extremity of the Leeds system) to Wakefield via Lofthouse. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friar Tuck Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 The depot at the top of the hill on the Matlock cable tramway is still in existence. https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=matlock+derbyshire&ll=53.143849,-1.549459&spn=0.005534,0.013937&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&channel=sb&hnear=Matlock,+Derbyshire,+United+Kingdom&gl=uk&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=53.143868,-1.549247&panoid=NqTYWmilyt3aHCZhsMZB4g&cbp=12,261.99,,0,0 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted March 10, 2014 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2014 (edited) Not quite tramway but I wonder if the Guided Buses Only sign is still up at the end of Streetly Road, Erdington, I haven't been past for a year or two, but was always amazed it was still there and not in someones collection, having been liberated one night! Andy Where Birmingham leads, others foolishly follow! (re Cambridge etc.) Keith EDIT: there used to be a few remnants of the Kinver Light Railway still extant a few years ago. Not sure of the situation these days Edited March 10, 2014 by melmerby Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineer_London Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Quick pointer to Kinver material including survivals: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/40592-kinver-light-railway/ That previous topic owes much to Wheeltapper, who we miss. I remain personally grateful to him for his assistance and generosity. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Summerisle Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 There is the 'tram and social' in tooting, which claims it was once a Tramshed, it's certainly believable. This school in Richmond was once a tram depot, before becoming a fire station, then an arts/community centre; https://www.google.co.uk/maps?q=Richmond&ll=51.465678,-0.298862&spn=0.00913,0.024397&t=m&hnear=Richmond,+Greater+London,+United+Kingdom&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.465622,-0.298941&panoid=3EtqSrYy5fT1ZDU91a57LA&cbp=12,312.14,,0,-3.26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted March 11, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2014 There are two buildings in Batley that were built as tram depots. One on Bradrford Road that was actually used as such then became a wool warehouse tnhat the other on Clark Road that was built as a tram depot but never used and became a fire station instead. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tractionman Posted March 12, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2014 Excellent stuff! Looks to me like someone should write a book on this, I had no idea there were so many surviving tram depots around the country. A good topic for a Shire Book on Old Tram Depots perhaps? http://www.shirebooks.co.uk/Motoring_and_Road_tr/ Could be my retirement project... though by 2035 either someone'll written it or the surviving depots will have become just a handful. Seriously, this is our industrial heritage and we ought to keep an eye on it before more old depots bite the dust. cheers, Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 12, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12, 2014 Excellent stuff! Looks to me like someone should write a book on this, I had no idea there were so many surviving tram depots around the country. A good topic for a Shire Book on Old Tram Depots perhaps? http://www.shirebooks.co.uk/Motoring_and_Road_tr/ Could be my retirement project... though by 2035 either someone'll written it or the surviving depots will have become just a handful. Seriously, this is our industrial heritage and we ought to keep an eye on it before more old depots bite the dust. cheers, Keith The Light Rail Transit Association has its own publishing department, perhaps they would be interested? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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