Hi Joe, I think that I have been " Barking up the wrong tree " regarding the location of the horse tram.
I found a picture on page 8 of this thread, which shows roughly the same place, but at a different time.
The red and white stone building at the rear, which I believe was the HQ of the White Star Line brings
me to think that I the trams never did go up and down the floating roadway. What I have sussed out is
the probable reason for the third horse that is leading the main pair. There were many tram routes which
started their journeys at the Pier Head, and all of them had a gradient to climb once across the Dock Road,
Chapel Street, Water Street, and James Street, so a " Team Horse " would be connected to the front of the
pair, and get the tram to the top of these 3 steep streets, and be brought back down to do it all again for
the next departure.
Cheers, Ray.