[Retlaw]

Back in the 1940's I seem to remember getting the Accy bus to Church and then the tram to blackburn, if you were sat on the top deck when you got to Eanam you'd swear the tram was going over.

I think the trams had finished in Accy long before any of us were born.

The tram lines are still under the road in Accy, about 10 years ago we had a power cut, rang the lecy and they said it was Manchester Rd and would be back on shortly. Took dog a walk and they were working down a hole about 150 yards past Oak Hill Park gates, got talking to them and they were repairing a joint, asked how they soldered alumininum cable and one of them gave me a stick of special solder, they were also puzzled about another cable in the same hole, which they said was still live and carrying 750 volts, I suggested the old trams that went up Manchester Rd, and they agreed it could be.

What I would like to know is why its still alive, and where is it fed from, back in them days Accy had its own power station on Hyndburn Rd.

Retlaw.