The big tram event for enthusiasts at the Crich Tramway Village takes place on Saturday 14th September with the main highlight this year being a line-up of horse cars to mark the 50th anniversary of the operation of horse trams at Crich. In addition the plan is for all operational passenger cars to be used at some point during the day and for some of the works cars to also be operated.
Although it was as recent as 2009 that a horse car line-up was displayed for an enthusiast’s event at Crich it is pleasing that the 50th anniversary of the operation of horse trams at the Museum is being marked and of course the line-up this year should be larger than that of four years ago. In 2009 the line-up consisted of Chesterfield 8, Oporto 9, Sheffield 15 and Cardiff 21 but this time round these four should be joined by Leeds 107, which recently arrived at Crich following its major restoration and launch in its home city over the August Bank Holiday weekend. It must be quite some time since five horse cars were displayed together in the open on the UK mainland and it should be quite a sight!
As well as this display it is planned that a tram usually housed within the Exhibition Hall will be displayed outside. No details have been revealed as to what this tram might be but we all like a little bit of mystery in our lives don’t we and it all adds to the excitement on the day!
An intensive tram service is planned to be operated throughout the day using all available operational passenger trams at some point in the day and these will be joined by some of the works cars in operation too.
It had been hoped that Crich would have been in a position by now to actually announce full details of the programme of events but this has been delayed due to unforeseen circumstances. It is now hoped to announce this later in the week. As usual all events at Enthusiasts’ Day are subject to the weather and availability of tramcars.
British Trams Online will be present on the day and all being well will provide our usual extensive live coverage on our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/BritishTramsOnline).
Maybe John bull can be posed in front of 9……as they ran together in the sixties (although livery will be different!)…..hope I haven’t guessed the surprise display!!!!!!!!
Possibly Dundee 21 along with the steam tram? It’s a trailer so should fit in with the horse cars.
According to the crich website, two trams will be pulled put of the exhibition hall…..the second being LCC1 in a ‘London line up’ before it enters the works………..my guess is 331 will probabbly take its place in the exhibition hall now
Tommy – I sincerely hope not – 331 is a lovely tram and probably doesn’t have anything actually wrong with it! I have a strong suspicion of which car will take LCC 1’s place in the Exhibition Hall, but prefer not to say what it is as I don’t want to jinx this particular tram, and also don’t want to give anyone any ideas!
Please see my 14/09/13 post about 331 under “another one bites the dust”.