TRAM: British and Australian (American usually streetcar also trolley) noun [C] An electric vehicle that transports people, usually in cities, and goes along metal tracks in the road. (Taken from the Cambridge English Dictionary)
GALLERY 34: TMS 50th Anniversary Celebrations This page was added on Sunday 5 June 2005
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 All Photographs in this Gallery were taken by Tony Waddington on 28 May 2005
The cavalcade of 19 trams was led by Southampton 45, the first tram to be preserved by founder members of the Tramway Museum Society. The tram is seen here at the car park tram stop as the nest few trams creep up behind it, with an inspector waiting to send them all down to Town End one at a time.
Oporto mule car 9 - the oldest car in the national collection - was next. It was pulled by the diesel engine Rupert, which has itself been an invaluable part of the TMS fleet for many years.
GMJ pulls Sheffield 15m the museum's operating horse car. 15 was the first tram to carry members of the public at Crich, a year before the erection of overhead wires enabled the electric tram service to commence.
Blackpool 4 followed the two horse drawn vehicles, representing the earliest type of electic street tramcar to be seen in Great Britain. Of course, on this day it was powered by batteries!
