Question about closing a tram junction?

[progress]

Where I live in Blackpool there is a plan to close a popular tram junction and I just wondered if a tram junction is mentioned in an act of parliament, if you would need another act of parliament to shut that junction?

If anyone knows that would be great?

 

[WatcherZero]

It requires government approval to close tram stations but not minor track alterations. It needs government permission to build a allignment in the first place and if they wanted to alter the route they would have to go back and renew the permission for that section.

 

[gordonthemoron]

how exactly is a tram junction popular? Stations I can understand, but do people actually ride the trams to go over the junction or am I missing something?

 

[jopsuk]

Also, what junction? Other than the spurs to the Rigby Road depot and the turn back loops, Blackpool lacks junctions.

 

[progress]

Thanks everyone for your replys, it's the junction/tram crossing at Lauderdale.

As it's mentioned in an Act of Parliament, I wondered if another Act would be required to close it.

 

[WatcherZero]

No, its required for establishment but not removal (except stations due to a certain infamous act).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Was there ever a stores depot for the tramway system between Cleveleys and Fleetwood that branched off to the right, when Fleetwood-bound?
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It's the junction/tram crossing at Lauderdale.

Why should be such trackwork at the Lauderdale Avenue area be required?

 

[jopsuk]

I think he means the road junction with the tram line. Not a tram line junction as such. I think we've got a confusion of terminology here.

 

[Mvann]

Was there ever a stores depot for the tramway system between Cleveleys and Fleetwood that branched off to the right, when Fleetwood-bound?

Wasn't that where the connection with the main line was made for the delivery of coal. I have seen photos of the steeplecab that's now at crich hauling coal wagons near there

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wasn't that where the connection with the main line was made for the delivery of coal. I have seen photos of the steeplecab that's now at crich hauling coal wagons near there.

I had heard something long ago about that depot, but was unsure what it was used for.

 

[Freel07]

Was there ever a stores depot for the tramway system between Cleveleys and Fleetwood that branched off to the right, when Fleetwood-bound?
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Why should be such trackwork at the Lauderdale Avenue area be required?

There used to be a depot at Copse Road, in fact its still there I think as a motor dealer or similar. There was a connection to the Fleetwood line there and coal was brough from there to the Tramroad Power Station at Bispham for sometime. the depot is on the left heading north.
There was also a Permanent Way siding at Thornton Gate until very recently. The siding was on the right heading north.
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No, its required for establishment but not removal (except stations due to a certain infamous act).

Watcher, I take it you are referring to the way TfGM have had to apply for DfT permission to close Mosley Street and Woodlands Road. I think, but not 100% sure, that the need for this is something to do with the way Metrolink was oringinally empowered and it may not necessarliy be needed for tramstops on other systems.

 

[WatcherZero]

As long as their rail stations created by a Transport Works Act the Parliamentary Services Act applies because they are public highways with a public mandated minimum service. Might not apply where informal stops exist where trams are flagged down on the older tram networks...Well Blackpool.... but their changing their station network such that they have a set of formal stops where every tram stops and a set of informal stops where only non-modified or specials will call, in such case a reduction of service through closing of one of the guarenteed stops would require approval.