Newsbot Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 People in Douglas are urged to use the horse tram service if they want to secure its long-term future. Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/...man/7217881.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hboy Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Mr Christian said if people wanted to help reduce the burden to ratepayers, they should buy tickets more often Once you've gone up and down the prom once that's about it really. What are they realistically expecting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollag Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 First step in gettting rid i reckon, next will be use it or lose it, the prefered cliche these days I will miss them but hey, my grandad missed the paddle steamers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Ayres Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Sure, I'll save them, only if the Queens pier gets built though. Could do with getting rid of those scruffy conductors for sure. At £7:95 an hour don't they realise they are in the public eye and get a clean jacket at least. And as for swearing at the motorists that have the temerity to overtake them, well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mij Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Sure, I'll save them, only if the Queens pier gets built though. That seems reasonable enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneaky Dolores Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 I've got mixed feelings about the horse trams. I'd be sad if they went, in the sense that there goes another part of our history and heritage, but I always feel sorry for the poor old horses, especially when the tram is full and there's loads of traffic going past them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zephyr Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 I backed one of the nags at 100/1, the damn thing fell after the first mile of a four mile race. That's just about Broadway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyboarder Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 It's all very well these relics going up and down the prom to try to maintain some tenuous link with the glorious Victorian past. Not the first choice of image I'd like to be conveyed to the world, but I don't really care that much. However, the thought of actually sitting on one freezing to death, trying to read a newspaper but failing, thanks to the wind and the driving rain and having some manky great beast turning it's minging arse inside out within a few feet of my seat doesn't appeal to me at all. I'd rather walk or take the bus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Ayres Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 There's a boat in the morning!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneaky Dolores Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 There's a boat in the morning!!! Let's do away with that as well while we're at it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollag Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 And bring back the paddlers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spock Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Lift the track and relay it either a) around the Mooragh or b) along the renovated Queens Pier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zephyr Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 The Mooragh used to have a little train running about it, nobody complained when that was scrapped. I quite like the horse trams, aside from giving the conductors a chance to chat up any fit birds who happen to travel by that means, (Health and Safety says they can't stand on the running board any longer) they slow the traffic down to below 30mph, so giving perambulators a chance to cross the road. The rolling stock have bloody good bearings and so, once the tram is in motion the horse doesn't need to work very hard at all. If us humans took as much excercise, we would not be as fat and rotund as we are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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