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Last Updated: 29 Sep 2015

DEPOTS & TERMINI

The most important terminus on the tram system was at the Pier Head. Here many routes terminated from one of three loops which allowed the cars to turn. The picture on the right shows the northern-most loop which was close to the Liver Building. Three bogie streamliners are in the picture. Two can be identified. Car 974 is on route 13 while car 870 is on route 44. On the left of the cars can be seen one of the walkways down to the floating landing stage used by the Mersey Ferries.






Many feaures of the Liverpool tram system remained well beyond the final closure in September 1957. On the left here is shown the depot in Smithdown Road, Liverpool 15. This picture was taken on 28th September 1986 but the building was also later captured on 26th September 1989 or thirty-two years after the last Liverpool tram operated! The two depot entrances that were used by trams coming off the street can clearly be seen sealed-up at the front. Smithdown Road depot was Liverpool's second electric tram depot and opened in 1899. In 1912 the depot employed 64 persons and had a capacity of 96 cars. It was in use up to around 1936.




On the right is shown the front of the Dingle Depot. The original building is the lefthand side of the structure. This was the first depot used by electric trams in Liverpool when they were introduced in 1898, the year the original building was constructed. In 1912, 61 persons were employed at the location and there was capacity for 101 cars. Dingle depot was used for trams up to 1952.






The large depot and works building at Edge Lane was an important feature of Liverpool's tram system. Shown here on the left is the entrance from Edge Lane into the works at the west end of the site. Many of Liverpool's trams had been built in this works. This picture which was again taken on 28th September 1986 clearly shows the tram tracks in and out of the works as they had been abandoned 29 years earlier in 1957. At the eastern end of this complex was the depot where Liverpool's last trams in service came off the street tracks for the last time on 14th September of that year. These works were a relatively modern part of the tram system having been constructed in 1926. Unfortunately like the other buildings above it has now been demolished.




This was the terminus at Bowring Park where the 6A route terminated and the trolley was turned for the journey back to the city centre. The terminus is captured here as it ended-up in the last days of the trams. Earlier, the track behind the viewpoint had continued into Bowring Park itself.






This picture on the left shows the Page Moss terminus, the eastern limit of the 40 route. Together with the 6A route it survived to the end of LCT tram operations in 1957 and is shown here close to system closure.