A stone tramway leading up Cleveden Crescent Lane in the west of Glasgow. Consisting of slabs of smoothed granite, they reduced the friction between cartwheels and cobbled streets, while the setts in between the tramways provided grip for the horses' hooves.

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Old tram lines (I think) running along the north bank of the Clyde in Glasgow photographed January 2025 (top), and the same lines photographed today.

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A Glasgow Corporation Tramways junction box at Parkhead Cross in Glasgow. Boxes like this provided electrical connections to the overhead wires used to power the city's trams.

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The two bridges across the Kelvin just east of Partick. The older stone bridge, known as the Snow Bridge, was built around 1800 and carried the main road heading west over the river.

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The office building of the former Govan Tram Depot on the corner of Harvie Street and Brand Street on the Southside of Glasgow.

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In Britain, this started with the creation of the Birkenhead Tramway in the 1860s, which, rather oddly, was built by the American George Francis Train!

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The irony, of course, is that the Riverside Museum in home to Glasgow's transport museum, and there had previously been talk about seeing if these lines could be used to run a heritage tram along this section of the waterfront.

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They've been removed as part of work currently going on between the old Queen's Dock Hydraulic Pump house and the Riverside Museum. Until this happened, this was probably the longest surviving stretch of tram lines left in the city.

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The power station was decommissioned in the 1960s, along with the city's trams.

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