The Golden Age of Trams, BBC 4, Monday December 5

Re: The Golden Age of Trams, BBC 4, Monday December 5 yoller #634009 7th Dec 2011 2:24pm
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marty99fred Smartchild Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 472 Likes: 2 Pensby	Originally Posted by yoller Train invited 1,200 of the great and the good to his super-luncheon (I think it was held in a warehouse on Birkenhead docks), including peers, MPs, most of the crowned heads of Europe, and the Pope. About 350 people turned up for the meal, but not the Pope. The Banquet was held in the workshop of Robert Main, the coachbuilder who assembled the trams, which had been shipped over from America. This was located at the junction of Canning Street and Argyle Street, roughly where the entrance to Wirral Archives is now (at that time Argyle Street carried on down to Shore Road across what is now the car park for the Cheshire Lines Building).

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Re: The Golden Age of Trams, BBC 4, Monday December 5 yoller #637086 13th Dec 2011 9:41pm
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OP yoller Smartchild Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 576 Cheshire	Here are the first few pages of George Francis Train's booklet published to mark the inauguration of his Birkenhead Street Railway in 1860. Birkenhead may have let the American entrepreneur build his dream project, but the booklet is not very complimentary about the town's inhabitants! Attached Images train.jpg (488.81 KB, 61 downloads) train2.jpg (891.18 KB, 62 downloads) train3.jpg (817.93 KB, 61 downloads) train4.jpg (616.54 KB, 60 downloads) train5.jpg (553.23 KB, 60 downloads) train6.jpg (968.94 KB, 61 downloads)

Re: The Golden Age of Trams, BBC 4, Monday December 5 yoller #637224 14th Dec 2011 7:34am
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bert1 Wiki Veteran Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 8,835 Likes: 32 tranmere	He took a chance on the commissioners liking it, he must have had a great deal of confidence in his project. If anyone wants to watch it again on i player, its only on for another 20 hours from this posting. Attached Images tram.JPG (126.9 KB, 20 downloads) God help us, Come yourself, Don't send Jesus, This is no place for children. Bertieone.