tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post1925103718055312740..comments2024-03-18T08:20:19.461+00:00Comments on Transpontine: Last tram in London: New Cross 1952Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-24310417268112241852018-01-06T13:23:35.377+00:002018-01-06T13:23:35.377+00:00I remember my bro with the cart after a thunder st...I remember my bro with the cart after a thunder storm the tarry logs use to come up. good for the fire Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04746035393467329528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-84558791827273841532018-01-06T13:18:13.211+00:002018-01-06T13:18:13.211+00:00My father drove the one before the last tram Alber...My father drove the one before the last tram Albert chapman xKathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04746035393467329528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-79268016885126777252014-09-30T16:40:24.896+00:002014-09-30T16:40:24.896+00:00I can remember the guys who were lifting the tram ...I can remember the guys who were lifting the tram tracks in Brockley subsequently selling door-to-door the wooden bricks covered in tar that had lain between the tracks. Apart from the expected use as kindling firewood, they were very good for children to play with and consequently get told off for getting tarry. I think this was in 1953.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-71483921667569103982013-02-13T10:29:58.401+00:002013-02-13T10:29:58.401+00:00I am told I was carried on the last Tram in London...I am told I was carried on the last Tram in London just before my first birthday and that the tram terminated at New Cross Gate Depot, a short distance from where we lived in Queens Road.Shirley Foale nee Richardsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-78236098038223634862011-12-13T14:55:11.849+00:002011-12-13T14:55:11.849+00:00George Gale wrote a vivid account of the last tram...George Gale wrote a vivid account of the last tram from New Cross to Woolwich in the Manchester Guardian in July 1952:<br /><br />"The journey from Woolwich to New Cross of the last tram was incomparable.<br /><br />Imagine a crowd along a prescribed route to see a king or queen pass by. Let it keep its squealing children about its knees and hoist up its infants with flags in their hands. Give it torn paper hats, flamboyant holiday-camp hats and ribbons, football rattles, tin trumpets, dustbin drums and scrubbing-board drums, real and tin tray cymbals, piano-accordions, and a welter of whistles. Let in line up not in daylight but late at night, after all the public-houses from the Old Kent Road to the free ferry at Woolwich and beyond to Abbey Wood have sent away their tens of thousands of customers filled with beer, their arms and pockets filled with bottles, and their throats in full voice. Take away most of the policemen a stately procession would command and then, at midnight, with the moon almost full and the night air hot, send out, to run this crazy gauntlet, a tram.<br /><br />Off it moved, filled with a noisy babble of passengers, and escorted by policemen on motor-cycles, hundreds of cyclists, scores of motor-cyclists, and dozens of cars. There was a great cheer, flares were lit, horns and whistles blown. A woman leaped on to the rear of the tram and clung there, her frock, underclothes, and blasphemies streaming out behind her. She fell off soon, but others clambered on the sides. By the end of the journey there were twenty youths sitting on the roof and dozens strung along the sides. There was singing all the way, and the tunes came easily to mind. 'Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner', 'Any Old Iron', and so on to 'Auld Lang Syne'."<br /><br />Can't find anything on the BBC Archives about it though.<br /><br />Cheers<br />IanLondon Sound Surveyhttp://www.soundsurvey.org.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-35073608162147293622011-12-11T10:08:12.891+00:002011-12-11T10:08:12.891+00:00My grandfather, Bill Merrington was a coachpainter...My grandfather, Bill Merrington was a coachpainter at the Charlton Depot. He did this work for some 40 years but eventually had to give up as the fumes of the paints and solvents in the confined spaces of the trams affected his health. I remember that as a child I was fascinated by the transfer letters that he had in his workbox and used some of them to adorn various things that I had made.<br />Peter.Peter Cavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04008779170113179256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-80610909806539758172011-02-08T11:10:26.223+00:002011-02-08T11:10:26.223+00:00This was not the lkastb tram, I was there and this...This was not the lkastb tram, I was there and this tram got "Stuck on the dead" as it entered the depot. The 72 had to push it in, as I remeber it. My father was a conductorn on the 72's with his driver "Ginger". When the buses came in he tried them then left London Transport as he did not like the ride of the buses.<br />Mu Uncle, Bill, also worked at the New Cross depot as a tram cleaner.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-58619543888200550212008-04-23T22:27:00.000+00:002008-04-23T22:27:00.000+00:00some scurrilous rumours that a tram actually ran o...some scurrilous rumours that a tram actually ran on the 7th July..sssuuusshhh<BR/><BR/>But I think we have to go by the official London Transport Last TramAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-48233561596479401582008-04-19T16:10:00.000+00:002008-04-19T16:10:00.000+00:00Thanks Michael, it is a bit confusing, there seem ...Thanks Michael, it is a bit confusing, there seem to be a number of candidates for last tram, probably in this order - <BR/><BR/>- the last scheduled tram from central London to New Cross (this is presumably the one referred to in the Time article, going down Old Kent Road)<BR/><BR/>- the official ceremonial 'last tram' from Charlton to New Cross, featured in the film.<BR/><BR/>- the 72 from New Cross to Abbey Wood, leaving New Cross at 11:33 pm.<BR/><BR/>- the number 40 tram that left Woolwich at 11.57 pm, with the tram age officially coming to an end at midnight.<BR/><BR/>Which tram ended up being burnt I am not sure. I guess the details aren't that important, what we can say is that 5th July 1952 was the date of all the final tram journeys and the celebrations were centred on New Cross depot (now the bus garage).<BR/><BR/>-.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17026835814805695527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-42292897334355360272008-04-19T08:48:00.000+00:002008-04-19T08:48:00.000+00:00According to the Kentish Mercurythe number 72 Tram...According to the Kentish Mercury<BR/>the number 72 Tram was the last tram from New Cross Depot<BR/><BR/>According to London Transport<BR/>"We consider the number 40 tram to be making the last tram journey because it leaves Woolwich at 11:57 pm"<BR/><BR/>The first Municiple Tram system was in Britain was Huddersfield which opened on 11 January, 1883<BR/><BR/>MichaelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com