27:25 Thank you for posting the stop names in the description - as I am not familiar with this particular route, I’m following this along with the map on my phone ❤❤❤❤
Nice ride (just a pity that the camera is not placed in front of the windshield) it is the first time for me that I ride on the route and it is recommended and many more free driving hours thank you
The first junction at Victoria is overly complicated leading to a broken rail that took them months to fix. Also they rarely terminate trams from Bury at Victoria or run trams to the Trafford Centre
What is with the green and yellow fingernail polish? Is it a fashion statement or something work related? Just curious, thanks. ....never mind. Just my terrible screen!!
Я что-то не понял: в кадре то мужская, то женская рука? А видео очень классное, словно сам по Манчестеру проехался. Спасибо авторам за предоставленное удовольствие.
I'm 14 minutes into the video, I don't think he's travelled a kilometre. On the rail line now and still crawling. Trams in the Hague really move, on dedicated lines off road, as fast as trains. The high doors are bizarre also. How many people fall off the ugly street platforms every year I wonder.
Thanks to a stingy national government, the original metrolink lines built in the early 90s had to re-use former heavy rail lines for the parts outside the city centre, hence why high floor trams are in use and those tall platforms were built in the city centre. These trams can also move off road and as fast as trains and regularly do on some the other lines not shown in this video, such as between Bury and Altrincham.
I'm guessing the driver entered an incorrect destination code into the system that controls the PA system and destination display boards. Would have been quickly realised and changed once they heard Altrincham a few times!
Good video although this journey is painfully slow for the most part. The city needs to do better than this. Conventional buses would be quicker it seems. Thanks nonetheless
Bombardier Trams sometimes have Bearing damage to the axles. We in Germany have the same models. Its interesting that the faulty engine sounds was not there at the stop "chorlton"... but starts to sound crap at st werburghs road...
Clearly not enough funding for the tramway if theres continous speed restrictions? Alarming given Manchester is the 3rd largest city...do they have problems like this on the TramLink in Croydon?
Probably not. Infrastructure in the UK outside of London is chronically underfunded. That's why Manchester has those highfloor trams in the first place, because central government made them re-use former heavy rail lines and existing stations rather than build a proper, new, modern system.
Its common among tram lines to have speed restrictions like those seen in the video. Its a safety measure owing to either tight corners or points which are not always designed the same as those on heavy rail or due to the environment the trams are passing through. In particular the fact that certainly in the city centre pedestrians share the same space as trams.
I agree, the speed these are go through the central area is just ridiculously slow, even on the segregated section that is elevated toward Media City area!
There are currently quite a few temporary speed restrictions in the city centre which are scheduled to be fixed later this year. 10mph is common though due to the amount of pedestrian activity in the city centre.
@@TheVapingYorkshireman It's over-defensive. No-one can get round in a city at this speed. You either have trams or don't (and they are not a substitute for a metro or proper urban rail) but complimentary. Running them at this speed is utterly pointless. Driving is just so much quicker and easier.
So if I were the tram driver, the bell button would be pressed so deeply into the dashboard that the bell would never stop ringing again. I'd ring all those undisciplined people off the road! Unbelievable! And by the way, it's always fascinating for us German viewers and worth a near heart attack that the British deliberately drive on the wrong side of the road, a miracle of biblical proportions that no mass crashes happen all the time. 😁
The trolleybuses were pretty quiet, both outside and in. So much so, they were nicknamed 'the silent death' - people crossing the road just didn't hear them until it was too late.
Having lived in Manchester almost 23 years now, I’ve used the Metrolink Trams extensively and it’s a much larger network than the LUAS Trams in Dublin in my native Ireland - the Metrolink drivers and support staff are very friendly at terminal stops, especially if they hear an Irish accent, which I still have despite living in Manchester for so long, as aside from being on Zoom Calls during lockdown, I try to go home to Ireland as often as I can 🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪❤️❤️❤️❤️
This tram systems reminds in our german cities like Düsseldorf, Cologne, Stuttgart partially underground and the rest above ground. There other german cities like Mannheim, Heidelberg and in particular Karlsruhe there they use the normal tracks of a tram,but outside the city limits it shares it with the railway tracks.
