Impressed with trams
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newts
Veteran
- Location
- Isca Dumnoniorum
I used the tram from Birmingham New Street to West Brom & back recently for the first time. I shall use this for future work trips.
BrumJim
Forum Stalwart (won't take the hint and leave...)
- Location
- Selly Oak, Birmingham
Kenrick Park?
Rode on the tram network in Newcastle for the first time on Sunday. It was rammed due to the GNR. Staff were great, really friendly and well organised. We'd been staying in Leeds for a few days previously, there appeared to be a lot of infrastructure work going on around the city centre, same as when we last visited a couple of years ago.
newts
Veteran
- Location
- Isca Dumnoniorum
No, Black Lake.
BrumJim
Forum Stalwart (won't take the hint and leave...)
- Location
- Selly Oak, Birmingham
On second viewing, tram is heading the wrong way for Kenrick Park.
newts
Veteran
- Location
- Isca Dumnoniorum
I used to get a second train from New Street to Sandwell & Dudley, then taxi the last couple of miles. Black Lake is 450 metres from my destination.
It drops you right outside the main entrance of New Street Station on the return journey.
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
I was slightly saddened to see the old Blackpool trams, like the one below, aren't used now, apart from for 'heritage' tours/rides. I remember them from 1960's holidays in Blackpool and my dad as a coach/bus builder of 49 years, working on them at East Lancashire Coachbuilders in Blackburn Lancs. They brought the in need of repair trams to his works on large transporters, or he and his workmates went to Blackpool to work on them, depending on the circumstances. He used to tell us as children that they brought the trams the 27 or so miles from Blackpool to Blackburn by laying temporary tracks to drive them here and then back to Blackpool and as children we believed him! 
