Leeds tramways operated until 1959 before the demise of many UK’s electric trams as people switched to petrol-guzzling cars. Bradford’s tram operated from 1882 until 1950, along with ...

Leeds will get its own tram network as consolation for the HS2 link to the city being scrapped, under plans being considered by Ministers. High Speed 2 was conceived as a 250mph rail line linking ...

The last tram service in Leeds ran on 7 November, leaving only two other cities in the UK operating trams – Sheffield ran its last service in 1960 and Glasgow in 1962. But by the 1990s, the idea of ...

Plans for a new tram system linking Leeds and Bradford have been broadly welcomed by commuters. If given the go-ahead, one line would run between the two cities, while another would be constructed ...

Leeds's tram system was built in the Victorian era but abandoned in the 1950s amid increasing car use. Home to 2.5m people who are mostly reliant on buses, ...

For decades, the council has failed to return light rail to the largest city in western Europe without a mass transit system ...

Indeed, plenty of smaller UK cities want to build trams — Leeds has been begging for one for years. Because of government frameworks, trams are better for cities to invest in than trains.

Leeds tramways operated until 1959 before the demise of many UK’s electric trams as people switched to petrol-guzzling cars. Bradford’s tram operated from 1882 until 1950, along with ...

For many years, the UK city of Leeds has held the rather unfortunate distinction of being the largest city in Europe without a mass transit system. But that now looks set to change, with the new ...