Big Shunt 2 at Crich saw a number of trams moved around the depots and Great Exhibition Hall to allow Depot II to be fully cleared so that the major refurbishment works could commence. In order to fit all of the trams into undercover storage it was necessary to move some of those trams in the Exhibition Hall into the depots and some of those in the depots into the Exhibition Hall! If you are unsure where your favourite tram is currently spending its nights then look no further as we are able to bring you a complete list of where each tram can currently be found!
Workshop:
Road 1 – Sheffield 74, London County Council 1 truck
Road 2 – Blackpool 40, TW 4, GMJ, London County Council 1
Road 3 – Blackpool Electric Locomotive, Oporto 273, Sheffield 510
Depots:
Road 7 – Glasgow 22, Glasgow 1115, Leeds 399
Road 8 – Glasgow ex-Welding Trailer, Cardiff 131, Grimsby & Immingham 14, Leeds Tower Wagon 2
Road 9 – Liverpool 869, London County Council 106, Glasgow 1068
Road 10 – Metropolitan Electric Tramways 331, Chesterfield 7, Glasgow 812
Road 11 – Blackpool 166, Leeds 345, Southampton 45
Road 12 – Glasgow 1282, London Transport 1622, Johannesburg 60
Road 13 – Leeds 180, Newcastle 102
Road 14 – Sheffield 189, Prague 180
Road 15 – Hill of Howth 10, Blackpool 49
Road 16 – Halle 902
Road 17 – Blackpool 762
Road 18 – New York 3rd Avenue 674
Great Exhibition Hall:
Road 19 – Berlin 223 006-4, Brussels Snow Broom 96, Leicester 76, Bournemouth 85
Road 20 – Blackpool 167, Blackpool 236, Gateshead 5
Road 21 – Sheffield 330, London United Tramways 159, Derby 1, Blackpool & Fleetwood 2
Road 22 – Douglas Marine Head Drive 1, Blackpool 4, Blackpool 249
Manchester Horse Drawn Tower Wagon (in between roads 22 and 23)
Road 23 – Dundee 21, John Bull, Edinburgh 35
Road 24 – Eades Reversible Truck, Cardiff 21, Den Haag 1147
Road 25 – Leeds 107, Chesterfield 8
Sheffield 264 (in between roads 25 and 26)
Road 26 – Sheffield 15, Glasgow 1297
Road 27 – Oporto 9, Leamington & Warwick 1, Leeds 602
Note: In all cases the tram nearest the depot/exhibition hall doors is listed first. Depot roads are numbered from left to right as looking from the depot gates with road 1 the wash bay in the workshop. The lowest numbered road in the Great Exhibition Hall is that furthest from usual pedestrian entrance.
Once work on Depot II has finished all those trams in Depot III (roads 7-9) wil be moved into Depot II (roads 4-6) to allow for work to continue.
Thanks to Dan Heeley for information contained in this report.