StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: tram

Feltham Met 331 aka Sunderland 100 at Town End, Crich aka National Tramway Museum. Driving this straight out of the works in 1989 was interesting - it has air brakes and being new, almost no travel between OFF and ON ...

Blackpool 167 having disgorged the passengers at the southern end of The Link, is about to have the trolley pole turned. The Festival Wheel, on Norwood, is in the right background and the A-frame footbridge to Elsington & Norwood is to the left. 167 is not a tram local to Tyneside, but was a substitution by Crich, because the original choice Gateshead No.5 had a tendency to derail & stick on the points. . The shed behind is that tall so the double decked Sunderland 100 & Newcastle 102 will fit inside at night. A similar height shed at the northern end of The Link also contained the depot facilities.

Sunderland 100 [aka Met 331] on her way to Crich, this will have been during the early 1960s. Scan of an image sent to me just after the GGF.

Cleaned up & repainted for the summer - one of tram 7's bogies. I would class this as a plate frame trailer [unpowered] bogie. Need to crop out the makers plates / axle box covers ...

The rest of No.7 was still tucked inside the shed, after her winter maintenance.

No.7 [St. Trillo] one of the two upper section tramcars, was pulled a little way out of the maintenance bay at Halfway, for our inspection.

Viewed No.4 [St. Silio] parked inside the maintenance bay, from the covered "interchange" walkway. - which is why there's a reflection !

{models -1} Matchstick model of a open-topped double decker tram

Anon "trammer" with a sunshade - roofed toastrack - tram at the Derby Castle terminus collects some pats from a happy passenger. [Tramcar No.45 in the background}

Unidentified "trammer" - probably "Andrew" on the basis of the black forefoot - with a "sunshade" toastrack at the Sea Terminal end of the horse tramway's route along Douglas Promenade. [not actually at the Sea Terminal itself, but a few tens of yards along the promenade] {Currently - 2023 - the progress of the promenade "revamp" has truncated the tramway at Broadway / Villa Marina. Planned to return to the Sea Terminal, but when, that is The Question}

No.10 Many horse trams [at least five] and Douglas War Memorial, dedicated to the fallen in The Great War [note : this image taken before WW2] sited on Harris Promenade, opposite the Villa Marina complex. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_War_Memorial For info : WW2 casualties were, in time, added ... [scanned] not my image : fair use & public information

Blackpool 147 at Fleetwood. Having discharged the passengers, it will now follow the "Trawler" into the "turning area" before returning to Blackpool, after crossing onto the other line. The conductor will "walk" the trolley pole around into the new trailing direction, being very careful when de-wiring & re-wiring {it's bad form to get an arc / flashover} The pole is even springier for a single decker.

Why this is not wrapped up is a mystery ... I was told that this was the sole remaining item from the Birmingham Cable Tramway. since 2017/8 it has been in off-site storage after transfer into the care of the National Tramway Museum, Crich www.tramway.co.uk/trams/birmingham-75

Three working exhibits at the East Anglia Transport Museum - a trolleybus and two trams - were providing visitors with short rides around the site. L -> R they are LT 1858 (1930) ; Blackpool 159 (1937) and Maidstone 52 (LCD 52) trolleybus from 1953. Standing here at the Chapel Road terminus, whilst the next group of passengers climb aboard. Rides on the trams, trolley- and motor buses plus the narrow gauge railway are all free once you've paid to get in. All the volunteer operating staff are well-trained (tested) and very friendly.

Strictly speaking, having been built in the early* 1950s, Sheffield 513 is a little late in period for EATM, but fits in here better than she does at her home in Beamish, as the town there is set in 1913-ish. {*513 is one of a build of 35 double deck trams constructed between 1950-1952 by Charles Roberts & Co. of Wakefield.}

Pair of Middleton Trams.

Middleton Tram 271 (looks like a picture taken in winter).

Middleton Tram - somewhere in the woods. Unusually for British trams, the Middleton design had twin lamps in the dash, and used bow collectors not trolley poles to collect the current.