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Old 13th December 2011, 15:19
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Edinburgh tram trials underway.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-16151213

Got to say there seems to be an overkill on hi-viz jackets and hard hats . . .
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Old 13th December 2011, 21:59
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That doesn't look like 30mph to me. Barely 30kph.

Besides, 0-30-0mph in 500mtrs??????
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-20796678

Be warned, though:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22932518
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Having been brought up in Manchester, what you see in these reports is NOT what my Dad would call trams!
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Old 23rd November 2013, 19:46
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Dozens of drivers are being trained ahead of the launch of the service next spring.

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Tests to run overnight along Princes Street.

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One of Edinburgh's new trams has completed the first test run along the city's most famous shopping street.

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Old 5th December 2013, 12:04
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A challenge, for G-C. What was the fleet number of the last tram (16th Nov. 1956)??

I do not know the answer. I am pondering a theory.
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Old 5th December 2013, 22:08
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The simple answer is 172 as that one was bedecked in lights and ran a ghost service (with no passengers) during the final week in November 1956, and it lead the final procession of 88 and 217 which carried only special ticketholders, but as 217 was the final tram into the garage it could be said to be the last tram.
217 was sent to be scrapped the following day (followed by the rest of the fleet) but 35 was selected for 'preservation' (I don't know whether it still survives) instead of 225.


Information gleaned from:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eALRxMGYOq4

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No. 35, built in 1948 was put on display in a small museum at the Shrubhill Depot for a few years.
It then operated briefly at the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988 and then on the Blackpool tramway, before going into retirement at the National Tramway Museum at Crick in Derbyshire where it remains on display today.

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