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Picture in Time: Glasgow 1297
We stay in the 1960s for this latest edition of “Picture in Time” with a view of another Glasgow tram in action at Crich.
Picture in Time: Glasgow 812
Starting this evening we are back with “Picture in Time” and some traditional trams from Crich over the next few weeks. We start off by heading back some 52 years to the early days of the museum.
Picture in Time: Blackpool Balloon 717
Its off to Blackpool in 1984 again for today’s “Picture in Time” and in this instalment we are taking a look at another of the iconic Balloon cars.
Picture in Time: Croydon Tramlink 2531
One final image from Croydon before we move on and we continue in numerical order by featuring CR4000 2531.
What’s New on British Trams Online?
This week we have dipped into the archives for our Photo Gallery:
Picture in Time: Blackpool OMO 4
As last week we are featuring a Blackpool tram during 1984 in this edition of “Picture in Time”. This time it is one of the OMO cars.
Picture in Time: Croydon Tramlink 2530
This week our archive image from Croydon comes from 2003 and shows the very first of the CR4000s to be built by Bombardier.
Picture in Time: Blackpool Brush 632
Its Blackpool Thursday evening again as this week we head back into the 1980s for a view of a Brush Car in an all over advert.
Picture in Time: London Tramlink 2545, 2547 and 2546
It’s a more modern image than we have featured recently from Tramlink for today’s edition of “Picture in Time” with the trams having already received the more recent fleet livery.
Picture in Time: Blackpool Twin Car 673+683
We are off to Blackpool this evening this latest archive image and this time we find ourselves in 2001.
Picture in Time: Croydon Tramlink under construction
As we continue our archive look at Croydon Tramlink we head back to before any trams had run into central Croydon – mainly because the tracks hadn’t been laid yet!
Picture in Time: Blackpool Balloon 701
This week we feature another Balloon Car as we dip into the Blackpool archives once more with the time machine ending up some 20 years ago in the year 2000.
Picture in Time: Croydon Tramlink 2542
For the next few weeks Sundays will all be about archive images from our “modern” tramway systems and we start off in Croydon for a pre-opening image of one of the trams.
Picture in Time: Blackpool Balloon 702
After last week’s mystery – thanks to everyone who solved the conundrum of exactly the trams were in the photos! – we are on firmer ground regards the tram for this week’s archive Blackpool tram image!
Picture in Time: Snaefell Mountain Railway 2
For one final time in this batch we head to the Isle of Man and the Snaefell Mountain Railway during 1979.
Picture in Time: Busy times at Fleetwood Ferry
We are heading back to Blackpool for today’s archive image as we feature not one, not two, not even three but four trams at Fleetwood Ferry.
Picture in Time: Snaefell Mountain Railway 2
Its 1979 again as we return to the Isle of Man’s Snaefell Mountain Railway for an archive image.
Picture in Time: Blackpool Brush 626
This evening we are back in Blackpool for another instalment of “Picture in Time” and it’s the 1990s again.
Picture in Time: Snaefell Mountain Railway 5
We are again on the Isle of Man in the 1970s for this week’s traditional tram archive image with the Snaefell Mountain Railway again featuring.
Picture in Time: Blackpool Railcoach 678
We move into the 1990s for this week’s Blackpool archive image as we take a look a look at one of three ex-Towing cars which was never permanently coupled to its trailer.