Detail from a watercoloured postcard posted in Carlisle on 7 May 1907, showing a trsm on the single line section beside the monument in English Street outside the Crown Courts.

Trams passing outside the Old Town Hall. Detail from an undated postcard. The picture was taken from the House of Fraser cafe window.

The top of Botchergate, taken from the junction with Station Square. The southern end of the triangular junction is faintly visible in the setts. Postcard detail, postmarked 12 August 1904

The top of Botchergate, detail from a postcard posted on Sept.2 1906. The building on the right was the Midland Bank, now a public house.

Detail from a postcard stamped 7 April 1920, showing a tram outside the Crown & Mitre Hotel at the junction of English St., and Castle St. One corner of the Cathedral is visible in the background.

The roof front of the City of Carlisle Tram depot. At one time there was a city crest in the light coloured panel section

Detail of the gable end

The front of the shed, angled to London Road

Another view of the front of the brick-built shed

A wider view, showing the lower side

The front of the depot is now in use as a tool hire shop

The small shed attached to the side could be an engineers shed, but could also be access to a boiler.

Lindisfarne Street, alongside the lower part of the tram depot

Close up of the side room, which appears to have been built concurrent with the main shed, for the tramway opening at the beginning of the 20th century.

Detail of the wall and front conrer

The entrance. Theglass wall is a recent addition, this having been a garage until 2000

Trams only came into the depot going "uphill", actually a rise over the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway and then up to Gallows Hill.

The upper side front of the building. As the Newcastle and Carlisle original station was alongside, and was still in use as a goods station when the tramshed was built, there may have been a connection here.

Detail of the roof and front gable. The roof was reclad in the 1990's, and the celestory roof was replaced by a plexiglass-cladd upper section, with corrugated lower part. The original spars were left in place underneath.

The upper side of the tram shed. Note the curvature, built to keep out of the way of the goods station next door.

Close up of part of the rear section, which may have been an office.

The upper side of the tramshed.

The view from beside the tram shed down London Road to the City Centre. On the left used to be the works of Cowans, Sheldon, "cranemakers to the world". Today a retail park, the only reminder is the Cranemakers Public House, beyond the trees in the distance.

The view more-or-less that homeward-bound tramdrivers saw arriving at the depot.

The tram shed, sandwiched between Lindisfarne Street and the railway. The hump in the road over the railway is being crested by a white vam.

The company who stopped the trams running still has a presence in Carlisle. In 1930 the City Council sold the tram system to Ribble Motor Services, who promptly closed it in the following year. In the 1980's and 1990's Ribble and Cumberland Motor Services became part of the Stagecoach Group, and a new bus belonging to that company passes the tram shed. All the company's existing bus fleet was damaged beyond repair on 8th January 2005 when their depot in Willowholme was inundated by floodwater - maybe this depot would have been a safer place to keep them? Flood photos are available at http://stephenford.fotopic.net/c395158.html

2-Lindisfarne Street, and the rear of the trams shed. Note that the workshops behind have a lower roof than the shed itself.

2- The side of the workshop. A fire here in early 2005 caused damage to the roof, which has since been replaced.

2-Part of the workshop end wall. The houses predate the tramshed, havinge been built between 1884 and 1890.

2- The joint between the shed and the workshop. The castellated tram shed roof is worthy of note.

2- Whist some of the windows have been subsequently bricked up, the shed remains a light and airy place

2- The extension on the side of the tram shed

2- Detail of one of the widows, which may be original.

2- The curved nature of the building is apprant in this view

2- The side of the workshop onto Lindisfarne Street. There are now several entrances, but when in use, there were only two - the door into the extension from the blue gates, and the front where the trams emerged.

2- Detailing of the roofline. That on the left has been re-roofed in the early part of this year, although the original metal rood trusses were in the main reused.