Leeds Transport Historical Society
LEEDS TRANSPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWS SHEET 173 MAY/JUNE 2013 YOUR L.T.H.S. NEWS SHEET M.H. Groups, Meeting Places & Times Apologies that this News Sheet is a month late! The MRT - Middleton Railway Trust, The Engine House, weeks prior to our May meeting were a very busy Moor Road, Hunslet, LS10 2JQ, 7.30 p.m. period for all your regular contributors, and a few days Refreshments on sale at half-time break. before intended publication date it became apparent LRTA - Light Rail Transit Association, Leeds Area, that there was precious little to include other than this Committee Room No.5, Civic Hall (Portland writer’s pathetic scribbles. Street entrance), 7.00-9.00 p.m. Apart from the tremendous workload on horse tram LTTG - Leeds Transport Touring Group, at Grove Inn, 107, several of your Committee went on a visit to Back Row, Holbeck, 8.00 p.m. £1 charge tramways in Belarus (hopefully to be described at this including supper month’s LRTA meeting), during which our chairman Ian Dougill contracted a serious illness. Hopefully he will be HORSE CAR 107 UPDATE Jamie Guest well enough to return to us this month; we proffer our Since the last News Sheet there has been much best wishes for a full recovery. progress. We are now facing a looming deadline to get The August issue will also be late, but by intention. By the tram finished for the launch at the end of August so then, the story of 107's recovery, restoration and return we are working on several areas at once.
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