Leeds 'Middleton Bogie' No. 265 - LTHS slide

An old photograph (35mm colour slide) taken at Roundhay Park Gates of Leeds City Tramways (LCT) car No. 265 showing a '3 - Roundhay Circular' destination blind.

The photo is from a 35mm colour slide produced by The Leeds Transport Historical Society.
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The 'Middleton Bogie' class were designed by the then General Manager (1932 - 1949) W. Vane Morland to run on the fast reserved express tracks such as the Middleton route, As well as innovative feature such as regenerative motors they had a body of steel panels on a teak frame with steel underframe and for driver comfort had a separate driver compartment with a tip up seat.

No. 265 was built by English Electric seating 30/40, ran on a pair of Maley & Taunton equal wheel swing link bogies, and first went into passenger service in Feb 1935. When new it had three destination blinds which was changed to just one (as in this photo) in Aug 1948. It last ran in service Oct 1956 and in the December was burned at Lowfields Road Permanent Way Yard.

The parts of the Leeds tramways system that had not already been withdrawn or transferred to bus operation closed in Nov 1959.

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Taken in: UK / England / Roundhay (show map)

Taken on: July 23, 2021

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