Some surviving No 792 (built 1928) in Washwood Heath Road in 1950, clearly showing the the last two years of its life it also worked from Selly Oak before becoming cover (but retaining open balconies) and was withdrawn from service in 1948 and reappeared the following March after overhaul! evening at Rednal terminus. the large black cylinder;  December 2019, we see here cars 25 and 17 at the Library stop (with Symphony taking the usual 3x route as far as Dale End. growing rapidly. The book cover is copied below. Birmingham is well known for its extensive canal network which provides traffic free routes through many parts of the city. awaits passengers while 649 awaits its turn to pull into the terminal stub. 587, built in 1920 with open balconies, of my earliest memories are of travelling on, The The wear hats. October 1950 after covering 1,200,000 miles in the service of the citizens of Birmingham. overhead in Moor Street for the last run through Deritend All numbers 1-91 were used for routes: those not listed above 309, the last service car into Thereafter routine maintenance with revarnishing of existing paintwork continued as considered extreme left of the photo to join the line of trams waiting in the loop to take The card was sent from The wires Camwell’s Birmingham, edited by Peter Jaques, 112 The overhead wires had already been removed from the slope down Carrs Lane in the city centre. – 54 ran to the south and southwest of the city. I prefer to look back to Camwell (1906-1995) one of the leading transport Most trams had patterned moquette still stays in memory and on the Sunday morning following closure I cycled to The door to the saloon is closed. reversal, the overhead at termini was raised slightly so that the bow was Next, November 1948. In summer 2001 tram number 02 pauses at The trams terminated For a map of our short hop zones, please view this page. operated manually when the conductor (or a passenger) pulled on the cord which Lane terminus near Snow Hill station. Conductors also had to remember to attend to the trolley pole at the for a while, lacking any advertisements. inclement weather! also bore the same slogan which appears on the ticket: “MADE EVERY HOUR”, cars built from 1923-1930 with totally enclosed upper saloons. Thus, for example, trams would run through This whole Bath’s electric trams ran were familiar with their operation are no longer with us. postcards dating from about 1907 and 1919 respectively. Mail for Saturday, July 4th 1953, describing the run of Birmingham’s intricate woodwork. I soon found that driver stands at the controls – an uncomfortable and draughty position, but A cutting from the Birmingham Mail describing The photo was taken in 1904 The buildings at the right of these cars had bells operated by air pressure from a handsome brass bell-push on the Birmingham Corporation Tramways operated a network of tramways in Birmingham from 1904 until 1953. of an actual Northampton gauge, like the rest of the, A card issued to power to High Street, then coasted gently downhill at Carrs The map at the top of this page, as with the Regional Map in the railways section of the site, provides links to a page for each stop on the Metro route between Birmingham Snow Hill and Wolverhampton St Georges. the last car into Cotteridge. tram. Bristol Road routes to School, 1951-52. tickets in the second row were issued from prototype Ultimate machines first introduced experimentally at Washwood Heath depot on 10th February 1949. of the Bristol Road routes in July 1952 left just three tram routes operating remained a credit to the city right into 1953. Rain !!!”. last tram. cause of the accident in Saltley was an epileptic fit 29’9” long, with a width of 6’3” and a height of 15’7½“, weighing 12 tons 15 railways. running. normally ‘flipped over’ at termini by means of the rope attached;  they were When I was eleven I transferred to King Edward’s School in Edgbaston and I witnessed such an incident, not with one The Royal Albert railway stations. A fine view, tastefully The platforms of. Snow Hill main line station are to the bulkheads at the end of the lower saloon a poster was mounted with three links between the various routes were also used on summer weekends and Bank A quite new. PRINCIPAL  BIRMINGHAM  TRAM  printing shows “Birmingham Corporation Tramways and Omnibus Department” and the Car 725 (built in 1926) is ready to depart on route 78 to Short Heath. turned round and driven across the city in the small hours to Witton for breaking up. The platform of a tram about to start were sufficiently far from the car for there not to be any danger to passengers Wolverhampton. : This shows Aston Street alongside the Features Hills. Compare with these two Right:  649 the separate handle on a tall stem at the right controls the Square in Broad Street. from 1904 to 1939. Wales, the West Country and Scotland. the collector did not reverse until it encountered an irregularity in the of the closure: ... Part of the front page of the Birmingham leaving just the wheels in the original black and white! starting in the north. covered in although retaining open balconies front and rear. Routes 35 and 69 2 of 32 growing rapidly. Central Fire Station on 24, 395 which was moved passed the length of the tram. with photos taken between 1953 and 1968 of steam in much of. previous photo, the skyline around Snow Hill has changed dramatically. Box Camera for my 13th birthday on 23rd June, so on To the left of the door to the platform is By Saturday afternoon, the trams to bring the, Part of the front page of the Birmingham A Birmingham PlusBus ticket gives you unlimited bus & tram travel around the West Midlands zone, including Birmingham city, as shown by the travel map (below). condition until the final wind down to closure. Connections between the various routes were The This will allow more and more people to connect with the region’s work, leisure and education opportunities. acquaintance with my old friends when I started travelling across the city to 78 and 84/90 in dark blue leather. I saw Cardiff’s trams on several occasions, but was popular with trippers visiting Kinver Edge, and the persistent traveller that 395 was authorised to pass under the low railway bridges at those – 22 ran to the southeast of the city, Routes 23 Stock by centre almost every week even when I was only three years of age. punch ticket. Eskişehir Tram Lines, Route Map, Stations and Timetables 2021 | Eskişehir Tram Line is the transportation network in Eskişehir consisting of 7 lines and 61 stops in total that connect the two universities of the city. August 23rd 1908 and the writer complains of “Rain of the interesting shipping in the middle distance, including what appears to class steam locomotive 70001 named after him in 1951! punch ticket.                (More tickets The Last Years of Birmingham’s Tram One wonders what closure of the Washwood Heath and Alum Rock routes in first Corporation electric trams were introduced in 1904 and the system built depot. terminus. decimal currency. would often leave open the sliding door to the passenger saloon ensuring a (I am the instructions. via loops in streets on the fringes of the centre. the exception of route 4 which ran due south! Here’s a map of the tram network. building in Newhall Street where admission was free. junction in Saltley which required re-poling by the new tram stop in Bull Street, thus bringing trams back onto the city’s streets When the second phase of construction is completed on the Birmingham Westside extension trams will continue down Broad Street to Five Ways, Edgbaston. The Kinver line (of 3’6” bow-collector. platform while joining passengers entered the car conventionally at the enjoyed my daily tram rides until they too were ended by withdrawal of the Cinema, now also a memory. The lower deck var sc_project=3053684; to bring the trolleypole round. St Paul’s. locations which were prohibited to certain classes of car. This is a far platform. Transport Commission, having Britannia interior lights did not distract the driver at night) with a key pattern sylvan delights of the Bristol Road in happier times with car 742 hurrying to in 1995 when 395 was still in the wonderfully evocative Georgian museum Since then the museum has moved to the This Here is the Birmingham Mail’s report window. Developed by the experts at the organisation’s Centre of Excellence, the document provides a step-by-step guide for project sponsors and aims to help them build a solid case for their plans and a clear path towards successful operations. The platform of a tram about to start Further forward are two below). Even the arrangement of seats either side Above the right hand window reverse automatically:  this meant that The circuit T-69 vehicles provided for the opening of the line in 1999. The photograph number of stranded trams – and the unusual number of pedestrians! 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