Transport

Having abandoned a rainy Southport I travelled by train to Manchester Airport before returning to the city centre by tram as I had not previously used this route. The tram traverses some sections along the public roads where it jostles with cars for space. This is the crossing of Barlow Moor Road on the outskirts of Chorlton.

Another photo of the Foden 4 ton capacity wagon on demonstration during 1918 and seen in the yard of George Fryer's joinery works in Hazel Grove. It appears that Fryer did not purchase the wagon and it was sold to a business in Barmouth at the beginning of 1919. George Fryer never had a brickworks in Hazel Grove although he did operate brickworks at Tenement Lane, Bramhall and also in adjacent Adswood. They say the camera cannot lie, but this image could certainly be misleading.

Night falls at Haymarket as an Edinburgh tram heads for the airport.

Seville has a short 2km MetroCentro line using the Urbos 3 tram built by CAF. These have battery capacity to allow them to run in areas without catenary around the cathedral.

The Ford Anglia 105E was built from 1959 to 1968 and proved a popular small car in Britain. The Anglia Super 123E with the same body and a 1198 cc engine was in production from 1962 to 1967. We purchased a 123E for £35 in 1980 and had an interesting year of use from it before selling it on for £30. It had a tendency to jump sideways if driven above 50 mph and at one point deposited the fuel tank in the middle of a petrol station! It was painted the same blue seen on this Anglia 105E at Poynton Show.

The current ferry was built in 1984 and was designed and built at Oulton Broad by the late Fred Newson & the present owner David Archer. It can carry up to 3 cars at a time and can carry a maximum weight of 12 tonnes. There has been a crossing at Reedham since the early 17th Century. In 1949 the ferry was still hand-wound across the river Yare until early 1950 when it was motorised.