Longton Railway Bridge - Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
N 52° 59.369 W 002° 08.157
30U E 558000 N 5871449
A postcard of Longton railway bridge.
Waymark Code: WMV8V4
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/15/2017
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The postcard of Longton railway bridge looking from Times Square, at the bottom of Market Street into King Street towards Fenton.
The bridge (completed in 1889) carries the Stoke to Derby railway,
underneath the bridge a tramcar can be seen. The bridge looks much the same today.
On 16 May 1899 the first electric trams ran from Stoke to Longton. By 1902, the company had a fleet of 105 trams and carried 14,438,048 passengers. By 1904 the system had expanded to 32 miles of route. The system closed in 1928.
Behind the bridge on the right is the Crown and Anchor Hotel and just behind the hotel can be seen the tower of St. John the Baptist Church, Lane End. The church was demolished in 1979. The Crown and Anchor can still be see today.
The vehicles are very different and it would be impossible to stand in the same location as this is a very busy junction.
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