Tony Young
Tony Young has a lifelong interest in trams which he is fortunate to have been able to follow professionally. After ten years in universities in Leeds, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sheffield and Salford, he joined the fledgling SELNEC PTE in Manchester and developed early plans for light rail in the seventies. He then led the technical team which prepared the plans in the eighties for the Metrolink tram network in Greater Manchester. Then followed twenty years as a consulting engineer advising...See more
Tony Young has a lifelong interest in trams which he is fortunate to have been able to follow professionally. After ten years in universities in Leeds, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sheffield and Salford, he joined the fledgling SELNEC PTE in Manchester and developed early plans for light rail in the seventies. He then led the technical team which prepared the plans in the eighties for the Metrolink tram network in Greater Manchester. Then followed twenty years as a consulting engineer advising authorities on light rail proposals in the UK and abroad. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and a Churchill Fellow. See less
