In this pictorial article we make a visit to the Streetlife Museum of Transport in Hull. With two major tram related exhibits featured, this museum was officially opened over 30 years ago in 1989. The interior of museum is set-up as 1940s high street and that is where the tram exhibits can be found – including Hull 132, a tram which is on loan from the national collection.
In this pictorial article we make a visit to the Streetlife Museum of Transport in Hull. With two major tram related exhibits featured, this museum was officially opened over 30 years ago in 1989. The interior of museum is set-up as 1940s high street and that is where the tram exhibits can be found – including Hull 132, a tram which is on loan from the national collection.
Whereas Hull 132 has returned home, the second exhibit we feature is a long-way from home: Ryde Pier Tramway 3. Built by Starbuck, Birkenhead in 1871 quite how a vehicle which was used on the Isle of Wight has ended up displayed several hundred miles away in Hull is unknown but it sits behind 132 on the street scene – probably the first time it has ever been on an actual street considering it ran on the Pier in Ryde! (Both Photographs by John Moore)
Don’t forget the steam tram engine which I believe is a Kitson. No opportunity here to include a photo.
Despite carrying the number 3 since it was restored in the 1950s, “The Grapes Car” was actually no 4 in the Ryde Pier fleet. The running gear was supplied by Starbuck, but the body is believed to have been built by the Pier Company.
Both this and the Steam Tram loco – Portstewart Tramway no 1 – were part of the private collection of a Dr H Winstone who lived and worked in Hull in the 1930s & 40s.