If you happened to visit the Crich Tramway Village – home of the National Tramway Museum – last year you probably can’t have helped but notice the construction work going on to replace the former Tea Rooms with an all new café. The work has now been completed and on Saturday 5th April Mayor of the East Midlands, Claire Ward, will be visiting to officially open the facility.
To be know as the Tram Stop Café, it is the largest development at the museum for 20 years and represents a major advance in visitor facilities. It has been funded through the generosity of donors and the resources of the museum.
Graham Bennett, CEO of the National Tramway Museum, said: “We are delighted to be welcoming The Mayor and other guests to the Tramway Museum to help us mark this investment in Crich, which will enhance the visitor experience, and support our continuing work in conservation, preservation and education about an important part of this country’s social and transport history.”
Claire Ward will be joined by regional business leaders, local politicians, and long-standing members of the museum.
The new Tram Stop Café. (Photograph courtesy of Crich Tramway Village)
A picture inside the new café. (Photograph by Stuart Cooke, 30th March 2025)
nice
Nice it fits the vintage look of the street……………..
Poor layout of seats should be in blocks of 2 which could be pushed together to form 4s or 6s, serving area too long and a lot of wasted floor space.
I love Crich but that really doesn’t fit within the vintage street scene aesthetic.
Awful! Not at all in keeping with the period street scene, nor the desired vintage experience for visitors.
Crich has to manage its budgets and also to meet planning requirements. It all takes money, lots and lots of it and visitors to the Café are looking for food and drink, not ‘vintage experience’. The Red Lion is the place to go for a degree of ‘authenticity’. I’m not saying that everything is perfect, it isn’t, but there is a necessity to work within the budgets!