Lickszz Posted March 12, 2004 Share Posted March 12, 2004 Originally posted by Abdul Those sewer repairs up there have flattened the roundabout. Are these works still ongoing? It's bad enough trying to negotiate the one way system without these roadworks causing additional chaos. I bet the local businesses are loving it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abdul Posted March 13, 2004 Share Posted March 13, 2004 Originally posted by Lickszz Are these works still ongoing? I'm afraid they are...and I'm sitting in the Firth Park library as I type! If I see a workman on the way out, I'll have a word with him to find out how long they'll take. But I must say, I feel it's an ongoing thing - in the past couple of months, the works have moved down Hucklow Road to the Firth Park roundabout, and there are similar works upon Sicey Avenue after the bowling alley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMCR Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 I can see this is an old topic but - I'm doing a bit of research into the tram lines on Firth Park roundabout. In particular I'm hoping to discover if they were lifted as part of the 2004 sewer works and then put back, or if they worked round them (difficult?). By the time trams stopped running through the roundabout the old cobbles had been tarmacked over, the current stone setts are too 'clean' to have been buried then rediscovered, so I'm thinking they were relaid to give the effect you can see today. Can anyone confirm this for me please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penske666 Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 Not all the lines are gone - most are simply buried like on Division Street Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMCR Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 It's not the fact that anything is buried, just that this little section through the roundabout is perhaps not as authentic as we're led to believe. If the lines currently laid in that section have been made to look genuine, by being relaid as part of a cosmetic reworking of the roundabout, then I win a bet ;-) I think the sewer works resulted in them being dug up and put back afterwards, that's the bit I'm trying to verify. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carosio Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 When they were laying the new tram tracks from Hillsboro corner along Middlewood Rd, I saw them lifting the old ones and burning them into managable pieces for removal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullerboY Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Not all the lines are gone - most are simply buried like on Division StreetSorry but there were never trams on Division street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willybite Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Sorry but there were never trams on Division street. hiya too true i was working at the time of the old trams being stopped and was working on the road on the crookes route, and i know at the time the tracks were just covered over with tarmac ,these and the lampholes too, the other grates were all lifted to the new tarmac level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bus man Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 There was two sets of tram tracks and two flower tubs inthe shape of a tram front on the moor this was removed around 5 years ago and the tracks recovered . Some where I have photos of them. Gnerally speaking all the old tram tracks as still insitu odd bits have been removed for road works and the some of the points were taken up but generaly its all there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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