Manchester, Corporation Street, Manchester Metrolink M5000 3097 (Bury - Manchester Piccadilly) 17/09/24.
Manchester Metrolink M5000 3097 after departing Manchester Victoria station crosses Corporation Street and begins the climb up Balloon Street to Shudehill.
A undoubted success, the Metrolink now 32 years old has expanded to a 64 mile network with 99 stations and is the largest Light Rail network in the UK.
* How Balloon Street was named:
On the morning of May 12 1785, Mancunians witnessed a balloon ascent in the city for the first time as Oxford-born James Sadler took to the skies.
The flight was made from the garden of a house on Long Millgate, which would later become Balloon Street.
Sadler was accompanied by a cat and landed in Radcliffe, he was the second person ever to make a balloon ascent in Great Britain.
Manchester, Corporation Street, Manchester Metrolink M5000 3097 (Bury - Manchester Piccadilly) 17/09/24.
Manchester Metrolink M5000 3097 after departing Manchester Victoria station crosses Corporation Street and begins the climb up Balloon Street to Shudehill.
A undoubted success, the Metrolink now 32 years old has expanded to a 64 mile network with 99 stations and is the largest Light Rail network in the UK.
* How Balloon Street was named:
On the morning of May 12 1785, Mancunians witnessed a balloon ascent in the city for the first time as Oxford-born James Sadler took to the skies.
The flight was made from the garden of a house on Long Millgate, which would later become Balloon Street.
Sadler was accompanied by a cat and landed in Radcliffe, he was the second person ever to make a balloon ascent in Great Britain.