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Originally Posted by Western SMT
Edinburgh is currently laying a new Tram network and should be running by 2011.
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Don't I know it! Road works everywhere! Technically speaking, they're re-adjusting utilities lying just below the road surfaces, though why they can't lay the track as well is beyond me.
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Originally Posted by Western SMT
How many other new Tram networks are there in the UK?
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MANCHESTER. I saw them building some of the system in August 1989.
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CROYDON, south of London. There's a network based on old closed railway lines from Croydon to Elmers End, Beckenham Junction and Wimbledon. There's a long section, mostly just off-road to Europe's largest housing estate at New Addington. I've been on the entire network in BOTH directions.
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SHEFFIELD. The only sight of this I've seen is from a XC train.
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NOTTINGHAM. This is the most recent tram system to open, and it's based on the Nottingham - Shirebrook - Worksop line.
Apart from Edinburgh, I'm not aware of any other new tram networks being built, though they're talking about grabbing current NR lines in South London and adding them to the Croydon Tramlink.
John