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It is nearly 90 years since the celebrated Falkirk trams completed their final trip round the circular and Inspector Walton steered the last car, decked with a floral wreath, into the Larbert Road depot.
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Britains nine light rail systems compare with around 30 in France and 60 in Germany as, historically, Britain has failed to invest in its transport infrastructure. With conventional tram systems typically costing around 50 million per kilometre, the UK will not be able to significantly increase the number of its light rail systems without a ...
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Work on creating a new tram network in Preston continues. The city should be joining Manchester, Blackpool and Birmingham in having its own system.
Earlier this year, Preston Trampower acquired Station House in Gamull Lane, to use as a headquarters. Appropriately, the building was once the station masters house on the Preston to Longridge railway. (Permalink) Longridge Preston Trams |
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Light rail 'plays a vital role' in supporting the shift from cars to public transport, and the case for it is 'stronger than ever', according to a new report.
(Permalink) Integrated Transport Light Rail Trams  Constitution Street [Tram]: Looking south along Constitution Street, Leith, at excavation work for the Newhaven extension to the Edinburgh Trams route, on 23 December.  Pelaw: A Tyne and Wear Metro service from South Shields bound for St James comes off Pelaw flyover in July 2004 and runs down the hill past the cleaning and stabling roads on the approach to Pelaw station. |
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The last batch of Aberdeen's trams went up in smoke early one May morning in 1958, accompanied by the flash of press cameras, the whirr of newsreel cameras and the click of amateurs' box cameras, as the crowds of people who watched the cremation tried to capture a bit of Aberdeen's history.
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Plans for a Glasgow metro tram network need clarity over funding and timescale a city MSP has said.
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A cross-Forth light railway linking Fife to Edinburgh could be considered for investment in the not-too-distant future, The Courier can reveal.
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Alex Salmond was facing a parliamentary backlash last night over his controversial plans to invest in roads at the expense of trams.
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