With the East Anglia Transport Museum now open every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday (plus some Saturdays for special events) until the end of September there are even more opportunities to visit the winner of the British Trams Online Museum of the Year 2024. And that is precisely what Bryan Grint did on Sunday 15th June when the two trams running were Blackpool Marton VAMBAC 11 and Sheffield 513 with the single trolleybus in use being London Transport 1201.
The three vehicles are seen here at Chapel Road terminus towards the start of the day.
The trolley is turned on 11 as it waits at Chapel Road. Having been out of service earlier in the season, the unique Marton VAMBAC has now had attention which has enabled it to return to use.
Sometimes things don’t always go according to plan and on one trip around the trolleybus circuit 1201 dewired outside the main trolleybus depot. Bournemouth 286 and Nottingham 578 look on.
The centre destination blind on 11 was set for a journey to Cleveleys.
Sheffield 513 returns to Chapel Road and passes the tram depot where Blackpool Standard 159 is at the front. (Photographs x5 by Bryan Grint, 15th June 2025)
Two days later and the same trams may have been out but it was a change on the trolleybus front – and what a change! NESA no. 5, operated in Hellerup between 1926 and 1963 and is now the oldest working trolleybus in the world. The fact that its at the East Anglia Transport Museum isn’t as strange as you may think as it was built by Garrett in Leiston, Suffolk. (Photograph by Bryan Grint, 17th June 2025)