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Salford Enterprise Centre, Guide Street, SALFORD, M50 1EW

The street and the old tram line used to turn to the left, where the back of Salford Corporation's former tram and bus depot was. But now the back of that building has been demolished, and replaced by apartments known as City Link. At the present end of Hessel Street is James Corbett Road, but there is no vehicular access to that from Hessel Street. On the left can be seen the electricity sub-station, on which more information is available here:- Image Links to other photos of Hessel Street:- Image

View from Metrolink tram

Here the tram line, disused for over 50 years, goes round to the back of the former Salford Corporation tram & bus depot. There was also clearly a junction here, at one point, probably sidings or perhaps it went into another building, used by the depot, which stood here in the past. Image Links to more photographs in the area of Hessel Street, including a further visit ten years later in May 2010:- Image

In May 2010 it was surprising to find the old Salford Corporation tram line still here, after about 63 years years of disuse. However it used to go a bit further around to the back of the former Tram & Bus Depot, so as to enter the depot via two huge doorways. That section of the track would have been removed to make way for the City Link apartment development built on the depot site, but retaining the depot's frontages to Hessel Street & Eccles New Road. How it looked in May 2000:- Image and Image Links to other photos of Hessel Street:- Image

This is a small part of the large development of apartments built on the site of the former Salford Corporation tram & bus depot. The development, known as City Link, has retained the depot's frontages to Eccles New Road and Hessel Street. Ten years ago, before this development commenced, the area around the back of the former depot looked like this:- Image (That photograph was taken from Hessel Street). Links to other photos of Hessel Street:- Image