East Anglia Transport Museum get two more Blackpool trams!

Posted on Monday 28 November 2022 by Gareth Prior

The East Anglia Transport Museum in Carlton Colville shows no signs of slowing down with their acquisitions following the news that two more Blackpool trams have made the long journey east – Brush Car 625 and Balloon Car 726. Both trams have been latterly owned by the Fylde Transport Trust but after negotiations ownership will be transferred to the East Anglia Transport Museum with the pair having already travelled to Carlton Colville.

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In Pictures: West Midlands Metro services disrupted after car finds way onto the tracks at St Chads

Posted on Monday 28 November 2022 by Gareth Prior

If its not one thing its another disrupting services on the West Midlands Metro. Sunday 27th November saw disruption for the service and it was no fault of the trams as a car was driven onto the tracks becoming stuck just beyond the stop at St Chads – and the first attempts to rescue it were thwarted as well.

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Out and About: Edinburgh Trams at the start of November

Posted on Monday 28 November 2022 by Gareth Prior

Today’s trip “Out and About” is going north to Edinburgh once more as we take a look around the city centre at some of the trams running on the first day of November.

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Trams &: Blackpool Balloon 715 & bus

Posted on Sunday 27 November 2022 by Gareth Prior

Today “Trams &” is in Fleetwood as we feature the now withdrawn Balloon Car 715 alongside a modern day Blackpool Transport bus.

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Performance plummets on Tyne and Wear Metro

Posted on Sunday 27 November 2022 by Gareth Prior

The period from 16th October to 12th November has not been the best four weeks of the year for the Tyne and Wear Metro with performance falling by 13% from the previous four weeks.

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In Pictures: Preserved Edinburgh Trams in Scotland

Posted on Sunday 27 November 2022 by Gareth Prior

Think of trams in Edinburgh and now you probably immediately think of the modern system which links the Airport with the city centre. Then if you think of preservation then it is probably Edinburgh 35 which is on static display at Crich. But there are a couple of other preserved Edinburgh trams which don’t get much look in on this website – both are at the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum in Dunfermline.

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What’s New on British Trams Online? 27th November 2022

Posted on Sunday 27 November 2022 by Gareth Prior

Down to Devon for images from the Seaton Tramway this week:

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In Pictures: Trams get the blues, another arrives and one gets ready to enter service on the West Midlands Metro

Posted on Saturday 26 November 2022 by Gareth Prior

With the strikes now over on the West Midlands Metro it should now all be systems go in operating the service and in the lead up to Christmas it has been announced that extra trams will be running at peak times (although these are not mentioned on the published timetable which retains “every 12 minutes” as the frequency throughout the bulk of the day). There has also been movement on the tram front with some of those which have already been repaired now receiving replacement blue vinyls whilst 48 has been delivered to the depot and 47 has been seen getting very close to entering service.

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Around the World in Trams: Dijon 1010

Posted on Saturday 26 November 2022 by Gareth Prior

We carry on with our series of photos from Dijon in north-eastern France as part of “Around the World in Trams” today.

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Metro won’t return to South Hylton until the new year

Posted on Saturday 26 November 2022 by Gareth Prior

It has been confirmed that services on the Tyne and Wear Metro network between Park Lane and South Hylton won’t run until the new year with Network Rail needing to complete major repairs to an electrical substation which recently suffered flooding. The disruption on the Metro line has been ongoing since Thursday 17th November and it now looks as if it will carry one for at least another 6 weeks.

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In Pictures: Birmingham Eastside extension works progress

Posted on Friday 25 November 2022 by Gareth Prior

Likely to be the next but one extension of the West Midlands Metro to open to the public, the Birmingham Eastside extension saw the first major signs of work last year with the installation of the delta junction at Bull Street/Corporation Street in Birmingham City Centre. With trams not set to use the junction onto Lower Bull Street and then ultimately to High Street Deritend for a while yet (there still remains no official opening date – even a year – for the line but the way things go with WMM extensions that could well be sensible!) there remains a great deal of work to complete on the rest of the route and in this pictorial update we take a look at what has been going on in recent weeks. Ken Jones is the photographer.

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Picture in Time: Snaefell Mountain Railway 1

Posted on Friday 25 November 2022 by Gareth Prior

In today’s edition of “Picture in Time” we are again on the Isle of Man and although we are on Manx Electric Railway property its not a MER vehicle that we’re looking at.

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In Pictures: Sorry sir you can’t get on the tram here…

Posted on Thursday 24 November 2022 by Gareth Prior

Readers of this website will probably be well aware that although trams in Edinburgh are running to York Place to use the crossover there is no longer a stop there with services back to the Airport starting at St Andrew Square. Unfortunately, it would appear that normal tram users aren’t so aware as the photo in this article shows.

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RAIB release report into fatal collision between tram and pedestrian in Blackpool

Posted on Thursday 24 November 2022 by Gareth Prior

The latest RAIB report to be released is in relation to a collision between a tram and pedestrian in Blackpool which tragically saw the 69 year old pedestrian die in hospital the following day from his injuries suffered. The collision happened on 24th November 2021 at a pedestrian crossing located to the south of the junction between Fleetwood Road and Queen’s Promenade adjacent to Anchorsholme Park.

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In Pictures: 28 in service on the West Midlands Metro

Posted on Wednesday 23 November 2022 by Gareth Prior

If you cast your mind back to June/July 2022 you may remember that West Midlands Metro Urbos3 28 departed Wednesbury Depot for Wolverton Works where it would receive repairs to the bodyside cracks. The tram spent around a month there before it returned to its home tramway but its use since its return has not been extensive. It does now seem to have settled into more regular use though as seen in this pictorial update.

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Derailment on Lower Mosley Street

Posted on Wednesday 23 November 2022 by Gareth Prior

Manchester Metrolink services have been disrupted from the early afternoon of Wednesday 23rd November after 3023 derailed on Lower Mosley Street. The tram was running from Altrincham to Bury when it derailed causing major service changes whilst engineers set about rerailing the tram.

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Main building at new Metro Gosforth Depot completed

Posted on Wednesday 23 November 2022 by Gareth Prior

The new main building of the redeveloped depot at Gosforth on the Tyne and Wear Metro has been completed as the project starts to come to an end. The completion of this section of the depot comes just a few weeks ahead of the first of the new Stadler built trains arriving in the northeast with it set to be delivered from Switzerland during December.

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In Pictures: Balloon 715 runs a farewell tour in Blackpool

Posted on Tuesday 22 November 2022 by Gareth Prior

Blackpool Balloon 715 – owned by the Fylde Transport Trust – is now officially withdrawn from service after running a special Farewell Tour during the afternoon and evening of Saturday 19th November 2022. It had been announced during the summer that a mutual decision had been reached by the FTT and Blackpool Transport Services to take the tram out of service and put it on static display at Tramtown and this special tour was the last chance to both ride and see the double decker out on the Promenade.

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NET staff vote in favour of strike action

Posted on Tuesday 22 November 2022 by Gareth Prior

Staff on Nottingham Express Transit could strike in the lead up to Christmas after a ballot by the GMB Union over the apparent threat by NET to withdraw payments to two terminally ill staff members. 94% of those who voted were in favour of strikes and talks are continuing between the two parties before any strike days are confirmed.

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Temporary timetable introduced in Edinburgh

Posted on Monday 21 November 2022 by Gareth Prior

The frequency of trams on the Edinburgh Trams network has been halved as part of a temporary timetable introduced on Monday 21st November. The revised timetable will run until further notice to allow maintenance work of the overhead wires to take place.

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