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View from Metrolink tram

This is Hessel Street, looking to its junction with Eccles New Road. On the other side of the latter is Weaste Road. Running down Hessel Street is a single disused tram line. It came down here because the building on the right was the former Weaste tram and bus depot of Salford Corporation. In Eccles New Road, going across at right angles to this old track, are the new tram lines of Manchester Metrolink, running to the Eccles terminus. A view in the opposite direction in this photo by Keith Williamson:- Image Links to more photographs in the area of Hessel Street, including a further visit ten years later in May 2010:- Image

Just where this old tram line in Hessel Street ends, it can be seen that there was originally a set of points, presumably so trams to and from the depot here could turn into and out of Eccles New Road in either direction. Today the Manchester Metrolink tramway runs along Eccles New Road. This photograph is one of several taken around Hessel Street on a visit in May 2010. Others taken at the same time:- Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Also a few taken on a previous visit ten years earlier, in May 2000:- Image Image Image Image Image

On the right the apartment development known as City Link, which incorporates some of Salford Corporation's former tram and bus depot. On the left, behind the railings is the local branch of Crossling, who are plumbers, pipelines and engineers' merchants. In the road itself, is a long abandoned tram line, which used to go from the back of the depot and connect to Salford Corporation's line in Eccles New Road. Image Links to other photos of Hessel Street:- Image