A brief history of Manchester’s original tram network, including the man who brought buses to Britain, horse-drawn trams, electric trams and trolleybuses. Most big cities in the world enjoyed a long affair with the tram and Manchester is no exception.
Trams allowed ordinary people to leave their local area and access a wider world around them. They allowed people to work further from home and have more options when it came to making a living. Long before cars and motorbuses, trams were connecting communities of ordinary people.
Then came the cars, motorways, Beeching cuts and Ernest Marples, the Manchester-born Tory politician responsible for more dismantling of Britain’s public transport networks than any other man in history.
Thanks to:
Manchester Museum of Transport:
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Kevin Macleod - ’Spinning Monkeys’
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