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Eccles New Road, SALFORD, M50 1EP

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

The building on the left was the old Weaste tram and bus depot of Salford Corporation. The line led round to the back of the depot, where it entered the building. Salford's trams ceased to run in 1947, and this building ceased to be a bus depot in 1986. When photographed in May 2000 the building appeared to be semi-derelict, and the tram track had not been used for over fifty years. Nearby are the modern tracks of Manchester Metrolink in Eccles New Road. Since this photograph was taken, most of the depot has been demolished and replaced with new buildings containing 200 apartments. The facade to Hessel Street and part of that to Eccles New Road have been kept, though as so much of this area has been pulled down, one wonders why they bothered. Image A picture of the front of the depot as it appears now can be seen in this photo by Alan Murray-Rust:- Image Links to more photographs in the area of Hessel Street, including a further visit ten years later in May 2010:- Image