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Salford town hall is just over the road from Salford central station ,the centre of Victorian Salford was indeed close to the station, most of what we now call Salford was originally Pendleton,

Burnley Barracks has not had any barracks near it since 1900,

The Oaks (Closed 1950), between Bromley Cross and Bolton is actually in Bradshaw, and was going to be called "Bradshaw for Harwood" , the local landowner somehow managed to get it named after his house, "Oaks Hall" .

Bromley Cross is 1875 , it has a preservation order on the building.(Bolton -Blackburn line)

This site is local to me, there are manual gates and there is a single cctv camera on a very tall post to the right of the camera tripod.

Heaton park in Manchester is the easiest to get to, if you want to see the trams close up. Get the metrolink from Man Victoria to Heaton Park stop and its a 10 minute to the depot and stop at "boating lake" then catch the vintage tram to the "tram museum" site . tickets are £2 return, or £5...

They havent arrived in UK as far as Im aware,I was told they are now on 5 sheeted transporters and that was the route they are taking from the factory to Blackpool

The first of the new Blackpool Flexcitys is on its way to Blackpool, Its on 5 trailers and is being delivered via Hull,M62,M61,M55. They will arive in Blackpool in darkness ,covered in sheeting to stop people seeing them till the official launch. The 5 parts will be re assembeled inside the...

It was always owned by stagecoach, It was originally set up using tri axle dennis buses returned from Stagecoach Hong Kong,and stagecoach malawi, As no one wanted them ,they used them to set up magic bus ,originally on the oxford road "student " corridor. They had half opening...

The first of the new Bombardier Flexity 2 trams are scheduled to arrive in August 2011, whereupon they will be tested on the stretch of line between the new Starr Gate depot and Pleasure Beach. Drivers will be trained over the winter ready for the new, state-of -the-art trams to take to the...

The first one is expected by end of September for commisioning trials,I think the conductor was refering to staff training in December.

http://www.harrogatechamber.org/harrogateline.htm This is the original source of the story (apologies to the mods for posting it in a sepersate thread) dave

Welll its not April 1st so there might be something behind this! Harrogate chamber of commerce want to electrify (3rd rail),Harrogate-Leeds/York and run cascaded LU stock on the line http://www.harrogatechamber.org/harrogateline.htm Dave

http://www.dayoutwiththekids.co.uk/things-to-do-family/Falmouth/Railways-and-Transport-Attractions dave

Excellent photos Reminds me of wandering round the Manchester depots as a 13 year old at a similar time,just have a word with the depot manager,then full access to all the roads and no health and safety nonsense to worry about,not a reflective yellow jacket in sight

http://www.helpemptymyattic.co.uk/index.php?page=doncaster-racecourse-toy-fair doncaster http://www.barrypotterfairs.com/ Rugby,Coventry http://www.bpfairs.com/events.php Northern England None actually in Nottingham as far as I can see Dave

Tesco had expressed an interest,the plan was a car park at ground level,with an elevated store built above,not unlike the one at Burnley,on the site of the old Standerwick/Ribble garage. Dave

does anybody know a good lineside photo/watching spot along this section of track,preferably somewhere I can park and watch the passing services without getting out of the car if its poor weather.

Well spotted mate. Ive Just looked at the old lancashire council photos from the sky of preston in the 1960s and the signal box is shown at the end of the garden of the second house. The rearmost driving coach seems to have a patch of white on it?,could the unit have been en route to crewe...

Today the people dreaming of Preston trams have released yet another press release,this time showing what the first tram station will look like, http://www.lep.co.uk/news/lep-business/back_to_the_future_for_city_s_tram_network_1_3515147 dave