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Borough Road, SALFORD, M50 1DX

One of the few remaining streets of terraced housing in the immediate area; at the back of the former bus and tram depot.

Metrolink tram number 1025 stands at Weaste tram stop en-route towards Eccles. 1025 is one of the T68 class trams built for Metrolink by Italian company Firema in 1991.

This is the Weaste tram stop on the Manchester Metrolink. At the approaches to each stop in Eccles New Road, both tram lines are swung from the centre of the road to the side, so that they can run between the specially constructed platforms. The Manchester system is not a low-floor one. Opposite the tram stop, on the right in this view, is the former tram and bus depot of Salford Corporation Tramways. Since this photo was taken in May 2000, the interior of the building has been gutted and rebuilt, to provide apartments. The facade on this side has survived. Image Links to more photographs in the area of Hessel Street, including a further visit ten years later in May 2010:- Image

The depot was built in 1929, and has housed both buses and trams. The last of Salford's tram services finished in 1947. The building ceased to be a bus depot in 1986. Two of the building's frontages have been partially retained and enclose a modern apartment complex. But the back, seen here in May 2000, has been demolished, and no doubt the tram tracks shown here have gone too. The track originally reached here from Eccles New Road via Hessel Street. The single track in the latter street still existed when this photo was taken, and on Eccles New Road the tracks of the modern Manchester Metrolink now run. The tracks seen in this view enter the building by both the open door on the left, and the door to its right, which was either shut or bricked up when the photo was taken. The terraced houses in the distance are in Humber Street. Image; Image; Image Links to more photographs in the area of Hessel Street, including a further visit ten years later in May 2010:- Image