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West Derby & Croxteth Park Issue 93 - April 2014
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In the 1920s electric trams were as familiar in the country as in the city. At Springfield Park the
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by Stephen Guy, West Derby Society road had been widened into a dual carriageway, built over part of Knotty Ash Gardens next to the Village Hall. Open countryside lay ahead with tram passengers given a grandstand view of farmers at work in the fields. On the right was historic Dovecot House with views
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TRAMS TO THE COUNTRY Trams clattered their way out of Liverpool and after passing through acres of terraced houses reached the countryside beyond Old Swan.
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towards Childwall Valley. On summer days around Horn Smithies and the Bluebell Inn lapwings soared overhead while the grating call of the secretive corncrake echoed across the meadows. Knowsley Hall and park lay to the north. At the junction with Huyton Lane there
was a terminus with a large wooden waiting room (pictured). Here passengers caught the connection to Prescot and St Helens. This section was opened in 1902 by St Helens Corporation Tramways following electrification in 1899. Trams also ran from Prescot to Rainhill, passing through Whiston. From 1927 there was a tram service between St Helens and Wigan. St Helens trams were scrapped in 1936 but the Liverpool to Prescot service continued until after the Second World War. From the late 1920s some services
in the St Helens area were replaced by trolleybuses, electricpowered vehicles that did not require tracks.
trams can be experienced at the National Tramway Museum at Crich, near Matlock, Derbyshire.
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Increasing use of motors eventually saw the end of traditional trams. Cars and wagons created wear and tear on the tram lines.
Visitors ride on restored trams or wander around huge sheds with row upon row of vehicles from all over Britain and many other countries.
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Trams were also badly affected by traffic jams as there was no way to avoid the queues. The trams themselves caused jams, especially if they came off the tracks on bends for example.
There is a 1930s green Liverpool tram which has been lovingly restored and is among those that carries passengers. Traditional trams also still operate at Blackpool.
Several modern systems, such as the highly-successful Manchester trams, run along routes which restrict motor vehicles. The golden age of
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