page_title: Manchester Corporation Tramways
hierarchical_section_title: Manchester Corporation Tramways
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: streetrailwayjo201902newy (find matches) Title: The Street railway journal Year: 1884 (1880s) Authors: Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation Publisher: New York&#160;: McGraw Pub. Co. Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: into the large bunkersoverhead. On its return trip it will pick up the ashes anddeposit them in a separate bunker from which the railwaycars on the high or low level can be filled. The purpose of this article being simply to give a gen-eral outline of the proposed work at Manchester, no at-tempt will be made in this issue to describe the interestingsub-stations, the motor generators of which are being sup-plied by the Allgemeine Elektricitats-Gesellschaft, and theswitch gear by Ferranti; or the important distribution sys-tem which is being carried out by W. T. Glover &amp; Com-pany, the well-known cable manufacturers, and which willprobably be the most complete of any in the United King-dom. The work of construction is being carried rapidlyforward, however, under the supervision of Mr. Metzger,and in a later article an opportunity will be offered forviews of the work itself, with fuller particulars of the ma-chinery being installed. A description of the recent work in Manchester would Text Appearing After Image: FIG. 6.—STANDARD DOUBLE TRUCK CAR be incomplete in this paper without at least a reference tothe tramway system, which is one of the largest, as well asone of the latest, in Great Britain. The tramways in Man-chester are also owned and operated by the corporation,and the first section was put in operation in June, 1901.The system is not confined to the county lines, but extendsbeyond the city of Manchester in a number of directions,except in the direction of Salford which has its own roadsThe tramway system in Manchester was originally leasedby the city to private operators for a term of years, but asthe leases expired the lines have been taken back by themunicipality and equipped with electricity. The system isnow almost entirely under the control of the city and hasbeen transformed to electric power. As it stands, it com-prises about 150 miles of track One of the principal features of the system is the QueensRoad car house, capable of accommodating 262 standardcars of the company, Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Between 1901 and 1949 Manchester Corporation Tramways was the municipal operator of electric tram services in Manchester, England. At its peak in 1928, the organisation carried 328 million passengers on 953 trams, via 46 routes, along 292 miles of track.
  It was the United Kingdom's second largest tram network after the services of 16 operators across the capital were combined in 1933 by the London Passenger Transport Board. Other large systems were in Glasgow
context_section_description: Between 1901 and 1949 Manchester Corporation Tramways (known as Manchester Corporation Transport Department from 1929 onwards) was the municipal operator of electric tram services in Manchester, England. At its peak in 1928, the organisation carried 328 million passengers on 953 trams, via 46 routes, along 292 miles (470 km) of track.
  It was the United Kingdom's second largest tram network after the services of 16 operators across the capital were combined in 1933 by the London Passenger Transport Board. Other large systems were in Glasgow (which had 100 miles of double track at its peak and Birmingham (80 miles).
  The central and south central Manchester area had one of the densest concentrations of tram services of any urban area in the UK. MCT services ran up to the edge of routes provided by other operators in (what is now) Greater Manchester, and in some instances had running rights over their lines and vice versa. There were extensive neighbouring systems in Salford, Oldham, Ashton, Hyde, Middleton, Rochdale and elsewhere.
  Services were withdrawn earlier than most other British cities to be replaced by trolleybus and motor buses. Trams did not return to the city until the modern light-rail system Manchester Metrolink opened in 1992.
caption: A Manchester tram, c. 1902
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