History of Hull: Trams 

As someone who lived in Hull in the 60's and 70's I assumed until just recently that the dual carriageways were built to convey the impression to visitors arriving by car that Hull was affluent. It was quite a surprise when I discovered the original use of the grassed centers.

Great video, the story of trams on a Sunday evening, I'm in heaven, many thanks.

My good friend Mally read was very proud that he had a trolleybuses licence. And I lived down Liverpool Street and I can remember the trolleybus garage at the top. Great video thanks 🙏

Hull should really look at bringing back modern trams, we have the spaces for them to flourish

Even though i left the city for good 42 years ago, when i was 21, i still am drawn back as if i never lived there and dreamt my former life.

We still have our double decker trams in Hong Kong. The trams are a vital part of the transport system on Hong Kong Islands north shore.

These studies are excellent, so well presented and interesting. Great accent and a city i love visiting.

Having just been released from hospital and told to take it easy for the next 2 months. I have been binge watching your various vids from the railways to the docks, etc. Love them, down to earth and very informative and as you said in a previous video, Martin Zero is one of your influences and also one of my other favourite people. Please keep it up. I have subbed

Another nice one HN. I'm well familiar with the rail remnants exiting the old Wheeler Street depot, and of course the depot was still in use when I was a kid living in Wheeler Street. Here in Australia, every capital city fell over themselves in a rush to ditch the trams. Couldn't get shut of them fast enough. Except far-sighted Melbourne, which embraces trams like they never went out of fashion. The tourism benefits are immense, and the tram system plays a large apart. Even though we live in Perth, our infrequent visits to Melbourne always include dining on a "Restaurant Tramcar." These are old beaten up tramcars that were destined for oblivion, but rescued by some enterprising folk who refurbished several and kitted them out for self-contained dining as the trams wander around Melbourne on some of the lesser used and out of the way routes. An experience not to be missed. From memory its a 6 or 7 course meal including trout as a main, and as much champagne as you can quaff... Well done uncovering remnants of track in Hull which probably most Hull folks will be totally unaware of. I had no idea such evidence still existed... I always keep a lookout for you HN, knowing another good one is in the works...

thumbnail on this one is simple but i think much better, i like the colour

fantasic. loking forward to the next..

Nice work interesting history very well presented

Thank you for this focus; another aspect of dear Hull previously unknown to me. Stay free, Jamie and Katy. A small donation from my wee State Pension will, hopefully, be forthcoming. Rab 💚 🍻 😎

That’s the best video yet! You told a full story, lots of factual information, references etc and I was gripped! Thank you, can’t wait for the next one now!!

Officially my new favourite channel 😍

i cannot believe i missed this one

Another excellent, well researched, informative and fascinating video. In the latter half of the 1970s. I worked, as a screen-printer, at Greens The Sign Makers. The company, at that time, was in Lister Street, probably 71. I was told, then, that the building had originally been a tram shed or tram depot. Had I been informed correctly? To help identify the building, I’m not sure which company is there, currently but as recent as 2022, it was HVM Commercial Vehicle & Hire. Thanks for the video, Gary Atkinson.

I can still just vaguely recollect the huge (or so it seemed) brick cathedral on Holderness Road that became a Corporation Bus garage after the trolleys were axed. It lingered on at least until the 1960's I think. The Morrisons store swallowed it up along with Craven Park greyhound racing and rugby stadium. Though I missed all that...

At the rear of Primark the Tram shed is still there on Osborne Street. Its now used as Primarks Storage unit. Lines still intacked. Great Videos by the way. Many thanks.

Fantastic video. Loved it.

Another great movie! I've been waiting for this video. Thank you ❤

I do not remember the trams.. But I do remember the trolley buses. Running behind them wating for the pole s to come off the wires and then the man with a longer pole putting them back on. Good old inersent days... Great fun..... 😊

Thankyou for this. I always enjoy your in depth looks at Hull history.

Thanks for this amazing video, very well produced and researched

Excellent as always HHN

Great video, well narrated and researched.

Brilliant 👍

Thanks for another informative well presented video.

Another well researched and well narrated (with local accent) short documentary. Thanks nerd for time and effort. I didn't know about Birkenhead and the early days. I like also that you pointed out the way trams have been introduced back in some English cities and European locations. Cheers for this. V interesting. :)

Brilliant once again, always look at the tracks on Anlaby Road, hard to imagine how busy that would been as shed...but nice reminder to the past.

Superb as usual and awesome to see some amazing relics still existing

I remember the Transport Museum from school trips.. Trams and the magnificent old Daimler Benz cars &c.. Great video as ever!

Brilliant stuff as per usual and I've just introduced a work colleague to your excellent videos and he's now engrossed in them 👍.keep up the great work.

Thanks for this great video. As someone actively involved in trying to improve Hull's rail based public transport system, trams and the new Tram-Trains like those in Sheffield are definitely on the radar.

Great video

great one as always, i used to travel on the trolley buses from courtney street school to travel to ings road,which was were they turned round.the trolly bus was half a penny cheaper then the normal bus. keep the videos comming.thanks brian d

Thank you Jamie & Kate .I do just remember seeing trolley buses on beverley road always great to see your videos about Hull & the east riding.If anybody wants a good laugh look for hull history bloopers on Jamies videos.

What an interesting video, I never knew Hull had trams, I remember the trolly buses in the North East Middlesborough and Hartlepool. Thanks

well what a gem loved your railway series this was a great video now i hope a nice history of buses in the area would be good

Great video !

I've ben waiting for the trams

Im sure i have memories of the depot on cott road being a bus depot in the 80s. I remember getting off the bus on bev road and walking down Haworth street (before it was blocked off at bev road end) and walking past it on way to newland ave with my mum.

I've just landed on your channel while suffering from Covid. These videos are amazing. I grew up in Brid and spent many hours in and around Hull chasing trains. Sunday teatimes dashing off to Botanic gardens depot to bag 37s and 47s plus the fleet of 08s. The video about Hull trams is top rank, very informative and entertaining. I will be watching the video about the Malton Dodger soon.

Always wondered about the "dual carriageways" in Hull. Thanks for that.

Wow, I had no idea tram networks were so uncommon now (having spent most of my city time in either Sheffield, Manchester or Nottingham, I always assumed they were basically the norm!) Interesting video as ever!

Another fascinating video, can we have sequel on theHull Trolleybus network please?

As a schoolboy I lived in Hessle with my parents in the late 1950´s and up until around late1960. Our house was located at the western end of Boothferry Road where the dual carriageway ended. Presumably that is where the earlier trams system terminated. After our spell in Hull, we moved back to Hyde, greater Manchester. There had been trams years before, but by then in the 1960´s, and for quite some time after, the transport system around Greater Manchester, used trolley buses along, with diesel powered vehicles. It is interesting to find out why there were so many wide dual carriageway roads around Hull, I never knew that there had been trams. The predominant means of transport whilst we lived there was the bicycle. At finishing time on Hessle road past the docks, forget trying to drive a car, the road was solid from kerb to kerb each way with bicycles.

I've lived in Hull all my life (70 years) and I didn't know that building was down Jesmond Gardens, even though I delivered papers down there. I remember many of the tram sheds and trolley buses quite well though. Very interesting.

My dad's grandad had the honour of driving the last tram. As he was retiring the powers that be thought it fitting he took the last journey. His name was John Edward Wilson or Edward John Wilson, can't remember which name came first 🙄

Another great video mum told me about the trolley bus's turning round at the bottom of newland ave . I can remember the depot on cottingham rd ,and my late wife was brought up on Liverpool Street she always said laughing that her house is now the butcher's department in Asda. Keep up the great work

I'm sure I can actually remember the Tram shed itself on Cott Road. Before it was demolished for housing. You can probably confirm whether I'm correct or not.

Great video, great accent (I was born in Hull😊), and good call on the photo thumbnail instead of the maps. Pity it’s a little dark, can’t really make out the tram at a glance.

Never knew that Hull had trams in the past. Other cities have had trams and trolley buses in the past. Including Norwich where I used to grow up near Norwich and it too used to have trams and trolley buses in the past.

Towards the end of 2018, Danshui Light Rail began oprations. It is a tram that operates in Danshui New Town area of Taipei, Taiwan. As well as servicing Danshui New Town, a branch line also goes to Fisherman's Wharf where, as the name suggests, there are several seafood restaurant buildings. One of thd interesting festures of these trams is that they contain batteries and are able to move under their own power for short diatances. This removes the need to suspend power lines over busy intersections, of which there is at least one.

There ye go, had me at Tram 😉 That were grand 😊

*sees notification* Me: "OUR LORD AND SAVIOR HAS RETURNED!"

Great video. You always do a really good job in helping to envisage how developments happened back when there was much more open space to work with. BTW is that theme music microtonal or some wierd non equal temperament or do I need new ears?

7:34 As an 8-year-old kid in the early 1970s I wondered why Hull (where my grandparents lived, just off Anlaby Park Road South) had these dual carriageways. They were completely unlike anything I had seen before (in my limited years). Even into my 20s and 30s, it was something quite unique, and I probably figured it out as something to do with post-war town planning (it actually looked quite 'European' and 'modern'). I had no idea anything to do with trams.

And Croydon which took over some old rail routes !!

The diversion created during the Blitz, to represent Hull, in open country (and thereby lure the bombers) included randomly flashing lights; this simulated the flashes of trolley wheels going under the overhead breakers. Looking at the tram rails, it appears to be unusual and like Doncaster, employed a check rail as wide as the running rail. Check rail is a misnomer as tram 'girder'rail incorporates a 'check rail'. What I am unsure about is whether the wheels ever employed two running faces - but that would be a quite unnecessary complication.

Interesting video, thank you. However, the illustrations are strange. Not one photo of a Hull tram or trolleybus, even though there are many to choose from on the web including ones seen running on the reserved tracks. 42 Hull trams were sold to Leeds during the war and ran there until the early 1950s. One has been restored and can be seen at the Hull Streetlife Museum.

Mr. Nerd, thank you once again and greetings from Leipzig where we enjoy a wonderful, integrated tram, train and bus network. Then there's my new E-bike making my car a waste of space and money. You can go of a ride on all the trams and buses on RU-vid - even what the trams were like in 1931. So, thank you once again. Anything about Beverley planned?

Very interesting. I'm sure I can remember going on a trolley bus up Spring Bank in late 50's/ early 60s🤔? For a second i thought your mic was a hedgehog brooch 😆 (just trying to fatten up 3 up for hybernation, so on my mind).!!

I usually find your videos educational and this one I did too. But I was surprised that you didn't mention the Hull trams preserved in your Street life Museum in Hull. You didn't show us a photo of a blue and white Hull trolleybus, non of which have survived. The London horse car photo was a of a standard horse tram, not a Philadephia horse tram (which you have one of in the Street life museum in Hull!) which were imported by George Train. It is see those trams in the Streetlife museum that will bring me back to Hull again. I missed out on them last time.

@ 2:37. Don’t quote me but I think that photo of trams in Launceston is actually Launceston, Tasmania, not Cornwall. The street looks familiar.

Thanks for another fascinating look at Hull's history. Trams were before my time, but I do remember trolley buses running down Chants Ave and into town. I recall each bus carried a long pole used to reconnect the bus to the overhead power lines, should they ever become disconnected.

One major change to Hull Tramways came as a result of the agreement with the local bus operator as to areas of operation. On some routes the tramway was cut back.

Melbourne, Australia has the largest tram network in the world.

"The Fuzz"😂😂

i wondered what them tracks down anlaby road were

I do wonder what hull would be like if they kept the tram system and uses what we now have as the bus lanes. Im sure it would be better than the current buses for sure like 3 main routes somehow from the city main train terminal Beverly road to the Tesco Holderness road Anlaby road Hessle road I just feel Hull should have kept them

By the looks of the maps,the furthest the trams went down holderness Rd is upto ings Rd,is that correct?

There are tram lines within smith & nephew building. Still Very visible

I like the two axel steam trams

Any chance of a video on Hull Trinity House the school.

Nice interesting video. Maybe the uk government should introduce trams back into all cities. Hull especially. Its flat and made for them.

Manchester had horse drawn trams at first there are or where on the internet photos of them with the driver and ticket collector and it shows the depo where they where housed not 100% shure but the depo might still be there.

Our Son lives in Melbourne, Australia and they have a fantastic tram system, going miles out into the suburbs. God help you though if you get in front of a tram and stop its journey, which I have done, they are very unhappy with you.

Wow I didn't know that Trans go that far out of by Hull

Video of hull trams on RU-vid

We never lost the trams in Amsterdam, Rotterdam en Den Haag

George Train...you couldnt make it up 😁

it was never broke but we tried to fix it

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