Leeds tram No. 202 stored @ Parkside

            An old photograph of Leeds City Tramways (LCT) tram No. 202 showing '26 - Balm Road' destination blinds.

The photo reverse is stamped with the photographer and/or negative owner name of Robert F. Mack (Bob Mack).

No. 202 was a fully enclosed 'Horsfield' class car built by Brush in 1931 (in service July of that year) seating 23/37, running on a 4 wheel Peckham P35 truck, and was based at the Bramley Depot (which was converted to a bus garage in Jan 1949). It had folding platform doors fitted in 1934, bow collector instead of a trolley pole fitted sometime after Dec 1938, the three blind indicators changed to a single blind Sep 1951, pullman vents fitted to some windows Sep 1951, and had bow tubes fitted instead of pulley wheels (for the collector rope) Mar 1953. No. 202 was part of the tram procession on the last day of tramway operations on 07 Nov 1959, and on 26 Apr 1960 at Swinegate was the last tram to run under its own *power (overhead wiring had already been removed from Swinegate) when it was used to tow the three railcars into position for them to be loaded and removed. The Leeds Transport Department gave No. 202 to Leeds City Museum for preservation and Jun 1960 it went into storage at Parkside on the Middleton Railway, unfortunately while in storage it was so heavily vandalised that it was beyond saving and was dismantled Dec 1963, its remains being burned Jan 1964.   😭 

*  Using a jumper cable from a section box to one motor of the car.

The parts of the Leeds tramways systems that had not already been withdrawn or transferred to bus operation closed in Nov 1959.

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Taken on: January 8, 2021

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