Roger Farnworth Railways

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RE: Stockport's Tramways
Stockport Corporation Tramways – Modern Tramway Vol. 12 No. 138, June 1949 – Part 1

P.W. Gentry wrote about Stockport’s trams in the July 1949 issue of Modern Tramway.

He says: “Besides possessing several interesting features of its own, the Stockport system today commands added attention as the last last surviving member of that once network of standard gauge undertakings encircling Manchester. It is an unusually pleasing system by virtue of its compact and simple arrangement, its focal point being Mersey Square.”

This article in Modern Tramway caught my attention because for about 9 years I worked in Stockport as a highway engineer.

We know that tramways arrived in Stockport in the 1880’s from the Manchester direction when “the Manchester Tramways and Carriage Co, Ltd., [opened] a horse-car service into Mersey Square via Levenshulme.” l

In 1889, the Stockport and Hazel Grove Carriage and Tramway Co. Ltd. was formed and “instituted horse car services southwards to Hazel Grove and Edgeley at Easter 1890.”

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