632:, many of which had their independent services. The extent of this inter-urban tram running compares with that found in parts of Belgium. Many of these services were also amalgamating or joint running. Stockport trams ran directly into Manchester with routes to Cheadle, Hazel Grove and Hyde. By 1913 there were so many services running in and out of Manchester city centre that the route names had to be replaced with route numbers – up to 46 MCT numbered routes are known though there were also some sub-sets of these routes. Despite the arrest of development and damage of the war years between 1914–1918 transport expansion was quick to be re-established. Women had been employed during the war as tram guards but there were shortages of materials and maintenance staff that led to the deterioration of both the track and the vehicle fleet. In 1918 the city's Medical Officer of Health closed the tram network to help stop the spread of
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plans to extend the tramway to the new and rapidly expanding large council housing estate of
Wythenshawe and to withdraw the trolley boys. No more new trams were ordered. Pilcher organised the UK's first major conversion of an intensively used tram route to buses in the United Kingdom when on 6 April 1930 the service from Cheetham Hill to Stretford Road was abandoned to the motorbus. Manchester's bus fleet then numbered over 100, and with lower overheads and profits increasing after conversion, Pilcher was seen as the man who persuaded some cynics that trams were outdated for British cities and that buses were the future. Thirty years after their initial opening, the old tram routes were showing the need for capital expenditure on new infrastructure – Pilcher used this as one of the main reasons to push ahead with conversion to buses.
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and off. Because by the early 1900s multiple organisations were owning various sections of tramways in
Manchester and surrounding areas, Manchester took the lead in rebuilding and electrifying their routes so that they could be leased back for operational services. The largest boroughs (Ashton-under-Lyne, Oldham, and Salford) continued to operate their own lines and began their own modernisation. At Bury, Oldham, and Rochdale, the steam services were also brought under the control of the local municipalities. In 1904 the Glossop Urban District Supply Company was set up to provide electric trams to
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requirement would be for as many as 600 electric cars but although this estimate was revised down to 400 it was still such a large number that it was beyond the manufacturing capacity of the period. Instead of having the entire network and fleet ready for the proposed opening in 1901, the
Corporation gradually replaced the old Manchester & Salford Tramway routes as vehicles became available. Notwithstanding, over one hundred cars were delivered before the system opened from 1899 onwards.
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Aberdeen, in 1956. The trams continued in Bury for a further month and the last tram ran in Stockport during 1951. The trolley bus routes remained until they were also abandoned by December 1966.
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262:, and, in 1877, it was they who gained the concession to operate the tramway, using the name 'Manchester & Salford Tramways'. By 1901 this company used 5,000 horses to pull 515 tramcars over 140 route miles. Their first service, therefore, began on 17 May 1877, between Deansgate and Grove Inn on the Bury New Road. Just three years later a new organisation was formed called the
702:, therefore in June 1931, the trams were replaced by buses. It was followed a month later by the line to Sale Moor and in 1932 the long run-up to Middleton got the chop. 12 November 1932 saw the Rochdale to Manchester trams being pulled out of service by Rochdale Corporation. In 1936 the council decided to replace the old trams on Ashton Old Road with new
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Express bus services, 27 in all, many running on the same routes as trams. In the early 1930s, tramcar revenue was lower than operating costs on some services and yet more replacement work was due and more buses were introduced. The city council decided to abandon
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line opened in 1883, though by 1887 the company was declared bankrupt. A new company with almost the same name was begun in 1888 (simply by deleting the word "Manchester" from its name) and successfully ran steam tramways until the municipalities began building and operating routes at the turn of the
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authorities in 1923. Middleton then granted
Manchester a lease to operate on their former tracks in exchange for allowing them to run Corporation trams right into Rochdale. Buses became one of the fastest-growing areas (Manchester Corporation went from 16 vehicles in 1923 to 51 in 1926). However new
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tramcar ran, the last tram in Oldham followed in 1946, and those in Bolton and
Salford ended in 1947. By 1949 just a few miles of track were left in Manchester and the last tram ran on 10 January of that year. The last of the old tram cars were stored at Hyde Road depot until on 16 March they were
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Corporation of Manchester agreed in 1895 to take over and modernise the existing tramways themselves. They sent inspectors to view the systems operated elsewhere in order to assess the best means of traction power and delivery for Manchester.
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system. The decision was then taken to use electrical power carried overhead but the track itself needed a complete overhaul from the horse-drawn days and at some junctions the track needed was to be so complex it even had to be ordered from the United States. It was thought that the initial
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226:). In the subsequent years, other companies joined the rush to provide services culminating by 1850 in 64 omnibuses serving the centre of Manchester from outlying areas. Passenger carrying trams had first began urban operation in
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2005:Grimsby & Immingham
1985:Barnsley & District
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2716:Trade fairs
2634:Milnes Voss
2518:Isle of Man
2503:Portstewart
2395:Musselburgh
2385:Lanarkshire
2320:Dunfermline
2197:Oystermouth
2142:Glyn Valley
2060:Scarborough
1756:Bournemouth
1569:Rawtenstall
1519:Heaton Park
1302:Walthamstow
758:Heaton Park
742:Heaton Park
634:Spanish flu
547:Stalybridge
320:Stalybridge
304:Levenshulme
86:Track gauge
2753:Categories
2375:Kilmarnock
2147:Great Orme
2137:Fairbourne
1978:the Humber
1771:Cheltenham
1744:South West
1695:Portsmouth
1623:South East
1609:Warrington
1544:Manchester
1449:Birkenhead
1434:Accrington
1427:North West
1316:North East
1093:Colchester
781:References
738:short line
700:Altrincham
655:Chadderton
626:Lancashire
590:Northenden
558:Hollinwood
556:, Denton,
531:Dukinfield
511:, ca. 1933
505:Manchester
340:Withington
316:Peel Green
284:Failsworth
268:Lancashire
228:Birkenhead
216:Piccadilly
200:See also:
175:trolleybus
160:Birmingham
145:Manchester
139:(known as
47:Manchester
2660:companies
2380:Kirkcaldy
2300:Dumbarton
2070:Wakefield
2065:Sheffield
2050:Rotherham
2000:Doncaster
1967:Worcester
1922:Potteries
1776:Devonport
1715:Sheerness
1680:Maidstone
1594:Stockport
1589:St Helens
1584:Southport
1549:Morecambe
1524:Lancaster
1368:Newcastle
1333:Gateshead
1113:Lowestoft
1088:Cambridge
962:4 October
898:pp. 62–65
760:in 1979.
651:Middleton
640:1921–1930
604:1911–1920
582:Stretford
562:Moss Side
554:Audenshaw
516:1901–1910
443:(used in
425:Edinburgh
423:(used in
336:Waterhead
328:Stretford
324:Stockport
312:Moss Side
280:Droylsden
276:Audenshaw
252:Deansgate
220:Pendleton
80:Technical
75:(in 1992)
69:Successor
2370:Inchture
2257:Scotland
2162:Llanelly
2112:Aberdare
2030:Keighley
1990:Bradford
1882:Coventry
1670:Hastings
1630:Brighton
1604:Wallasey
1574:Rochdale
1559:Old Swan
1494:Carlisle
1418:Tyneside
1307:West Ham
1272:East Ham
1260:Kingsway
1179:Ilkeston
1133:Southend
874:26 April
868:Archived
844:26 April
838:Archived
764:See also
659:Rochdale
630:Cheshire
570:Openshaw
489:Blackley
435:trams),
396:Atherton
376:Trafford
355:Rochdale
105: in
38:Overview
2400:Paisley
2345:Falkirk
2222:Rhondda
2152:Harlech
2015:Halifax
2010:Grimsby
1942:Walsall
1836:Torquay
1831:Taunton
1826:Swindon
1761:Bristol
1730:Wantage
1564:Preston
1484:Burnley
1255:Croydon
1250:Barking
1209:Matlock
1174:Glossop
1123:Norwich
1108:Ipswich
1073:England
917:1 March
732:Museums
688:pothole
664:Heywood
586:Cheadle
543:Mossley
535:Glossop
509:Salford
332:Swinton
224:Salford
185:History
168:Salford
156:Glasgow
100:⁄
56:England
2731:Second
2435:Wemyss
1907:Kinver
1821:Seaton
1685:Oxford
1554:Nelson
1514:Darwen
1479:Bolton
1348:Jarrow
1287:Leyton
1282:Ilford
1265:London
1243:London
750:museum
746:No 765
711:War).
545:, and
485:London
359:Oldham
344:Bolton
300:Kersal
292:Denton
290:&
288:Gorton
116:Length
53:Locale
2736:Third
2726:First
2390:Leith
2104:Wales
1816:Poole
1650:Dover
1640:Brill
1614:Wigan
1277:Erith
1118:Luton
786:Notes
754:Crich
598:Hulme
433:Leeds
429:steam
372:Wigan
351:Bacup
2025:Hull
1489:Bury
1081:East
964:2014
919:2020
876:2018
846:2018
657:and
628:and
596:and
580:and
539:Hyde
507:and
475:and
414:The
363:Hyde
338:and
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740:in
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437:oil
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