Marble Arch (which was originally the entrance to Buckingham Palace) was
the location of the Tyburn Tree - could hang 24 at once! (I was a live
guide on Big Bus)

On Tue., 18 Jun. 2019, 15:39 Dudley Horscroft, < transitconsult@...> wrote:

> Not quite correct. George Francis Train's tramway ran from Marble Arch

> west to Porchester Terrace, Bayswater - about one mile. See

> https://www.hydeparknow.uk/2017/02/25/bayswater-1861-tram/

>

> Train had plans to extend east at least as far as Tyburn - which I thought

> was where the Marble Arch is. This would have been the

> Oxford Street Line.

>

> He also operated the Victoria Street Tramway, roughly from Victoria

> Station to Westminster, I think, about one mile. See

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_London

>

> The later tramway to Victoria ran along Vauxhall Bridge Road, not the same

> alignment as Train's Tramway.

>

>

>

> Regards

>

> Dudley Horscroft

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> > "The people's carriage" i.e. trams, never ran in central London. The

> closest they got was Victoria Embankment and Kingsway. The

> > trolleybuses only really ran where the trams had.

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