THE GS TRAM SITE

LEEDS

UNITED KINGDOM

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1 Jan. 1931

VIDEOS

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Above: YouTubeCA video - Leeds Trams - Length: 9:40 mins. Above: YouTubeCA video - Leeds Trams 1958 - Length: 3:20 mins.

PHOTOS

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MAPS

Leeds 1931 tram map

INSET: CENTRAL LEEDS

Leeds 1931 central tram map

ABBREVIATIONS ON THE MAPS

BG Briggate ML Meadow Lane
CE Corn Exchange VL Vicar Lane
GWS Great Wilson Street WR Wellington Rd.



I created the above maps by overlaying OpenStreetMap (OSM) maps with my own data. Copyright on the OSM maps is © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under a CC-BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence).

Please note that the OSM maps used as templates for these maps correspond to the situation at the time the maps were downloaded and may show features that did not exist at the time the GS Tram Site is supposed to show. In particular, they may show bridges and highways that were built later.


ROUTES

LEEDS TRAM ROUTES

Operator: Leeds Corporation Tramways

  1 City Centre - Park Row - Woodhouse Lane - Otley Rd. - Lawnswood
  2 City Centre - Briggate - North St. - Chapeltown Rd. - Harrogate Rd. - Moortown - Circular
  3 City Centre - Briggate - North St. - Roundhay Rd. - Roundhay - Circular
  4 City Centre - Wellington St. - Kirkstall Rd. - Abbey Rd. - New Road Side - Rawdon Rd. - Leeds Rd. - Guiseley
  5 City Centre - Meadow Lane - Beeston Rd. - Beeston
  6 City Centre - Vicar Lane - North St. - Meanwood Rd. - Cambridge Rd. - Woodhouse St. - Hyde Park
  7 City Centre - Park Lane - Belle Vue Rd. - Hyde Park
  9 City Centre - Meadow Lane - Dewsbury Rd. - Old Lane
10 City Centre - Stoney Rock Lane - Compton Rd.
11 City Centre - Beckett St. - Harehills Rd.
12 Corn Exchange - Meadow Lane - Dewsbury Rd. - Moor Rd. - Middleton
14 Corn Exchange - City Centre - Wellington St. - Wellington Rd. - Armley Rd. - Stanningley Rd. - Bramley - Stanningley - Pudsey
15 Corn Exchange - City Centre - Wellington St. - Wellington Rd. - Armley Rd. - Stanningley Rd. - Upper Town St. - Rodley
16 City Centre - Wellington St. - Wellington Rd. - Tong Rd. - Whingate / New Inn
17 City Centre - York Rd. - Selby Rd. - Halton
18 City Centre - York Rd. - Cross Gates
19 City Centre - Wellington St. - Wellington Rd. - Oldfield Lane - Lower Wortley
20 City Centre - York Rd. - Upper Accommodation Rd. - South Accommodation Rd.
22 Station - City Centre - York Rd. - Selby Rd. - Temple Newsam
23 City Centre - Vicar Lane - North St. - Meanwood Rd. - Meanwood
24 City Centre - Meadow Lane - Elland Rd. - Morley - Tingley / Bruntcliffe
25 Corn Exchange - Hunslet Rd. - Wakefield Rd. - Rothwell
26 City Centre - Great Wilson Street - Hunslet Rd. - Balm Rd.
27 City Centre - Park Lane - Burley Rd. - Cardigan Rd. - St.Michael’s Rd.
29 City Centre - Meadow Lane - Elland Rd. - Domestic St.
30 City Centre - Park Row - Woodhouse Lane - Victoria Rd. - Cardigan Rd.

NB: Most Leeds lines were through-routed with other lines, and had no terminus in the city centre.

In the other operations noted below, only routes shown on the map are listed.

BRADFORD TRAM ROUTES

Operator: Bradford Corporation Tramways

10 Stanningley - Bradford City Centre
16 Drighlington - Tong - Bradford City Centre
17 Birkenshaw - Tong - Bradford City Centre
18 Tong (Cemetery) - Bradford City Centre

DEWSBURY TRAM ROUTES

Operator: Yorkshire (Woollen District) Electric Tramways Ltd.

No formal route numbers

WAKEFIELD TRAM ROUTE

Operator: Yorkshire (West Riding) Electric Tramways Ltd.

WR Corn Exchange - Hunslet Rd. - Wakefield Rd. - Outwood - Wakefield


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