Still Standing! Sunderland District Electric Tramways Power Station

Posted on Wednesday 23 December 2020 by Gareth Prior

We’ve previously been to Sunderland to see the old Sunderland District Electric Tramways tram depot (now in use by a tyre company) but there is also a second surviving structure in the same area – a building which is now listed.

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Lockdown Walks: Manchester Metrolink 3107+3116

Posted on Wednesday 23 December 2020 by Gareth Prior

Today’s “Lockdown Walk” takes in Manchester Metrolink once more.

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Trams &: London Transport 1858, Blackpool 159 & trolleybus

Posted on Wednesday 23 December 2020 by Gareth Prior

“Trams &” continues today as we head to the East Anglia Transport Museum and a regularly captured scene.

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NET donate advertising space to local homeless charity

Posted on Tuesday 22 December 2020 by Gareth Prior

Nottingham Express Transit 211 is now running with above window adverts for Emmanuel House Support Centre – a Nottingham homeless charity – after NET donated advertising space to the charity who have suffered a £70,000 shortfall in their annual income.

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In Pictures: A sunny day in Edinburgh

Posted on Tuesday 22 December 2020 by Gareth Prior

A number of the articles which we publish on British Trams Online are prepared well in advance and kept in store for those quieter periods when there isn’t as much news and this is one! This short pictorial article heads north of the border to Edinburgh for some views of the trams in service on a sunny mid-March day – it may only be 9 months ago but this is pre-lockdown and seems a very long time ago! Roy Calderwood is the photographer.

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Whatever Happened To? Midland Metro 06

Posted on Tuesday 22 December 2020 by Gareth Prior

Today we are again taking a look at Midland Metro’s original trams to see just what has happened to them over the years!

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15 Years Apart: Nottingham Express Transit 214

Posted on Tuesday 22 December 2020 by Gareth Prior

In this “15 Years Apart” we take a trip to Nottingham once more (we did warn you there was less variety than we hoped for in this series – Nottingham/Blackpool dominate!) to view one of the Incentro trams in service in both 2005 and 2020.

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Lockdown Walks: Edinburgh Trams 257

Posted on Tuesday 22 December 2020 by Gareth Prior

Today’s “Lockdown Walk” (coming from a time of no lockdown but never mind!) is again in the Scottish capital.

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Feasibility work underway for DLR extension to Thamesmead

Posted on Monday 21 December 2020 by Gareth Prior

Transport for London and their external partners have just started feasibility work on the proposed Docklands Light Railway extension from Gallions Reach to Beckton Riverside and Thamesmead. The £1 million project has been fully funded by external partners and will allow the proposal to be further developed ahead of 25,000 new homes being built along the proposed route.

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That was 2020…

Posted on Monday 21 December 2020 by Gareth Prior

Well, that didn’t go quite according to plan did it! I don’t think any of us could have expected 2020 to have panned out as it has and with little actually happening these usual end of year notes have a rather different feel to them. How do you write a mini review of a year where for much of it we have been in lockdown or under severe restrictions?

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Picture in Time: Blackpool Balloon 705

Posted on Monday 21 December 2020 by Gareth Prior

We start another batch of archive Blackpool tram images today and in this selection we go back to early September 1976 to see the Blackpool Tramway as it once was.

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15 Years Apart: Bolton 66

Posted on Monday 21 December 2020 by Gareth Prior

Today our comparison series “15 Years Apart” is heading to the Fylde Coast again, although this time its not a Blackpool tram we feature but a long-standing guest!

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Trams &: Blackpool 166 & car

Posted on Monday 21 December 2020 by Gareth Prior

And again its Crich where we find ourselves for this edition of “Trams &”.

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Trams in Video: Trams & Light Railways in Belgium

Posted on Sunday 20 December 2020 by Gareth Prior

Today we head back to Belgium once more for more film from the tramways and light railways of the northern European country. Split into three sections there is footage from Brussels including a visit to the tram museum at Woluwe before we head to Charleroi, Gent and Antwerp before ending up on the Belgian Coastal Tramway with the 125th anniversary parade on 12th June 2010.

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Lockdown Walks: Manchester Metrolink 3104

Posted on Sunday 20 December 2020 by Gareth Prior

Once again we head to Manchester for another instalment of “Lockdown Walks”.

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Christmas and New Year services 2020/21

Posted on Sunday 20 December 2020 by Gareth Prior

Its been a year like no other and with restrictions and social distancing still in place the Christmas and New Year period will also be different but despite that there will still be services in operation across the various operating tramway and light rail systems in the British Isles and as always we bring you this one stop guide to see what service will be running on your local system. It’s a fairly standard picture (without late night services) although frequencies may be down on previous years. Now includes Stagecoach Supertram which I somehow forgot before!

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Trams &: Lisbon 730 & bus

Posted on Sunday 20 December 2020 by Gareth Prior

In this latest edition of “Trams &” we are taking a look at a tram which was on holiday in the northeast at the time of this image with it being caught alongside another vehicle.

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What’s New on British Trams Online?

Posted on Sunday 20 December 2020 by Gareth Prior

In the final main site update of 2020 we head back to the United States of America as we see one man’s quest to see a certain trolley in service!

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Christmas Shutdown for Trams to Newhaven project

Posted on Saturday 19 December 2020 by Gareth Prior

The Trams to Newhaven project has now shutdown for Christmas with no more work scheduled to take place again until Monday 4th January (when a site inspection will take place before work resumes in earnest the next day). Over the past few months excellent progress has been seen on the construction which has included the first stretches of track laid at both Ocean Terminal and on Leith Walk.

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Around the World in Trams: Berlin 1552

Posted on Saturday 19 December 2020 by Gareth Prior

Its another trip to Berlin for this week’s “Around the World in Trams”.

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