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Old 9th December 2009, 17:06
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As a child living in Bradford i remember the trams a great form of transport and then the trolley bus good clean transport.
We lost ours in "GREAT BRITAIN?" and Europe kept there's.
But i am glad to see them making a come back in the cities.

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Old 25th February 2010, 20:16
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There is the Metro from Birmingham to Wolverhampton near us. As yet there has been no expansion from the 1st line though it is in the "pipeline". I often think that reopening as a heavy railway would have given an extra corridor between Birmingham and Wolvohampton and not taken a platform from Snow Hill.
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Its because its the only tramline in the country that since opening has decreased rather than increased in passengers. http://www.pteg.net/NR/rdonlyres/D2D...FINAL15Feb.pdf

look on page 7. Nottinghams NET hasnt been too hot either.
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