A nice shot of a 33 Tram to Manor House at Aldwch Tram Subway Station here:
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/k/kingsway_tram_subway/index4.shtml
ently the city with the most extensive tram network. Next biggest tram networks are in decending order, St Petersburg, Amsterdam, Upper Silesia, Berlin, Moscow & Vienna. I guess if Moscow (pop 12m) can run a tram network successfully London should be able to, however Moscow probably never ripped up their tram tracks like London did. Reinstalling tram tracks is messy (see the Edinburgh case).
Btw I like trams a lot. We used them daily in Den Haag last week. The tracks however take up a lot of land where they're not incorporated into the roads themselves.…
later be replaced by electric traffic lights. The 177 was part of the 77 group of routes, the ancestor of today's 77 & 87 routes which have been diverted away from the route's traditional terminus at King's Cross.
The typically fat LCC inspector was on duty to assist crews and ensure that accidents didn't happen here. A fully loaded tram could loose all power on the uphill climb out of the subway, if it's fuses blew. It would then be liable to roll back down the ramp into Holborn Tramway station. In such a case the inspector would jump onto the back of the tram (where the fuses were positioned) and flick the switch to bring back the power. This actually happened on the very last night of the trams to Manor House & Archway.. when the last tram to leave, heavily overloaded, blew it's fuses just before reaching the top of the ramp.. Luckily an inspector positoned on the back platform prevented an accident by switching the fuses back on. Otherwise the tram might have unceremoniously rolled back into the closing celebrations of Holborn Tram Station.…
E/3 1991 (delivered 1930) seen here in early 1952 working to Manor House on the 33. This route is covered from Holborn Hall to Manor House by today's 341.