SpacePhoenix
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Is the Weymouth tramway (which will probably never see any trains run over it again) the only example left in the UK of a "heavy rail" tramway that's still in situ?
I assume the Welsh Highland Railway at Porthmadog doesn't count as heavy?
Is there still some at Trafford Park?
Does the length of track in Kings Cross goods yard count?
But it runs along the road here (including over the bridge you can see, which is confusingly known as Britannia Bridge, making two combined road/rail Britannia Bridges in NW Wales):Looking at that location I couldn't really call it a tramway, it's more like a normal railway line crossing the road at level crossings
Is there still some at Trafford Park?
I can't remember, is there some tramway on the Preston Docks branch?
Where did that go ? Was it a temporary terminus?I've just been looking at Trafford Park on Google and failed to see any lines which run along a road in the carriageway. There's one place where a quite modern-looking (but disused) line cuts across a roundabout, but if I remember correctly the Metrolink Trafford Park extension will require removal of that line and will cut across the same roundabout in a different direction.
And now I've mentioned Metrolink, there's this in Oldham - never been heavy rail so off topic for the thread, but still amusing:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.5...4!1ss8JLL2PYm93rSMHRD3CjLA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Has all the quayside stuff at Ipswich been lifted now? Think some is still in place (possibly still used, although not the stuff around Neptune Quay, obvs).
https://goo.gl/maps/1v5D7zZgYp82
https://goo.gl/maps/YyfTUrSQZUR2
https://goo.gl/maps/NqUmYAJD4j82
Not UK either, but look at this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOvrpbCm3z0 Austrian loco, but in Croatia.
(Still happening when I was there last year!)
Actually, there are isolated tram tracks at London City Airport, alongside the old dock! You can see them running parallel to the runway, on the north and south sides.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5042768,0.0634019,86m/data=!3m1!1e3
Where did that go ? Was it a temporary terminus?