. The Street railway journal . s in their severaldistricts. The various corporations and local authoritiesowning the lines leased them to the Manchester Carriage& Tramways Company (the successors of the ManchesterSuburban Tramways Company), and this company has, into four groups, viz.: (a) the Manchester group; (b) theSalford group; (c) the Oldham gToup, and (d) the Ash-ton and Stalybridge group. It might appear that this splitting up of the system intogroups is a public disadvantage, but in reality it is not so,as the Manchester Carriage & Tramways Company hasworked its system in seven or eig
. The Street railway journal . s in their severaldistricts. The various corporations and local authoritiesowning the lines leased them to the Manchester Carriage& Tramways Company (the successors of the ManchesterSuburban Tramways Company), and this company has, into four groups, viz.: (a) the Manchester group; (b) theSalford group; (c) the Oldham gToup, and (d) the Ash-ton and Stalybridge group. It might appear that this splitting up of the system intogroups is a public disadvantage, but in reality it is not so,as the Manchester Carriage & Tramways Company hasworked its system in seven or eight distinct sections, eachcontrolled by a separate manager. The Manchester linesare to be extended and the total track mileage, when com-pleted, will aggregate 150 miles of single track. The policypursued by the Manchester Corporation is to make arrange-ments for having tramcar communication between thecity and the nearest large towns and the district within aradius of 7 or 8 miles of Manchester will be probably one of. ONE SIDE OF ENGINE ROOM, DICKINSON STREET STATION during the past twenty-one years or so, operated the entiresystem. In the year 1895 the corporations of Manchester andSalford began to consider the question as to what was tobe done at the expiration of the leases in 1901, and aftertwo years consideration by special committees, it was de-termined by the two corporations respectively to munic-ipalize their tramways. A glance at the accompanyingmap will that, owing to the ownership of the linesbeing in various hands, the difficulties in the direction ofa general municipalization of the entire tramways of thedistrict were very great, and it was predicted that the vari-ous local authorities having conflicting interests wouldnever come to an agreement. This prophecy, however, wasnot fulfilled, as agreements have now been entered intowhich enables the municipal working of the entire systemto be carried out. The tramway system hitherto worked by the ManchesterCarr
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