When will the Leeds tram open? Despite the positive news for people in the area, it will take years until trams are trundling through Leeds. According to the council, construction ...

Trams were now seen as being a fundamental part of the green transport revolution and in 2001 he gave Leeds Supertram the ...

Leeds will get its own tram network as consolation for the HS2 link to the city being scrapped, under plans being considered by Ministers. High Speed 2 was conceived as a 250mph rail line linking ...

The last tram service in Leeds ran on 7 November, leaving only two other cities in the UK operating trams – Sheffield ran its last service in 1960 and Glasgow in 1962. But by the 1990s, the idea of ...

Plans for a new tram system linking Leeds and Bradford have been broadly welcomed by commuters. If given the go-ahead, one line would run between the two cities, while another would be constructed ...

For decades, the council has failed to return light rail to the largest city in western Europe without a mass transit system ...

Leeds resisted, and invested in over 100 new trams in the same year. They opened the Gipton Approach extension in 1937 and tracks to the new Middleton housing estates in the 1940s.

Leeds tramways operated until 1959 before the demise of many UK’s electric trams as people switched to petrol-guzzling cars. Bradford’s tram operated from 1882 until 1950, along with ...