Author Archives: Gareth Prior

Driver to face trial over Sandilands accident

Posted on Saturday 9 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

Alfred Dorris, aged 48 from Beckenham, is to stand trial at either the Old Bailey or Southwark Crown Court after he pleaded not guilty to breaking health and safety laws during the London Tramlink accident on 9th November 2016. The … Continue reading →

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In Pictures: Two more new adverts in Edinburgh

Posted on Friday 8 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

The past few days have seen another couple of trams receive new adverts on Edinburgh Trams – both directly replacing expired contracts. The new adverts are on 262 and 272 with the pair both seen with their new vinyls during … Continue reading →

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LRSSB release three year business plan

Posted on Friday 8 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

The Light Rail Safety and Standards Board have released a new three year business plan following the confirmation of £3.3 million worth of funding from the Department for Transport. This gives the organisation – who are responsible for driving light … Continue reading →

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Picture in Time: Gateshead Garden Festival – Sunderland 100

Posted on Friday 8 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

Our archive photo series “Picture in Time” continues today with another trip to the Gateshead Garden Festival.

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In Picture: Testing to Edgbaston Village continues

Posted on Thursday 7 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

As mentioned earlier this week testing/driver familiarisation is now underway on the West Midlands Metro extension to Edgbaston Village ahead of a start of public services at some point in the near future (and hoped to be before the Commonwealth … Continue reading →

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Tram Sunday is back and Heritage Tram Tours will come to the party!

Posted on Thursday 7 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

After an absence of two years Fleetwood Tram Sunday – or the Fleetwood Transport Festival if you prefer – is back on Sunday 17th July and although the event has evolved a lot since that first one back in 1985, … Continue reading →

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Rail replacement work coming to NET from end of July

Posted on Thursday 7 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

As had become traditional during the summer school holidays there will be rail replacement works taking place on Nottingham Express Transit which will lead to part of the network being closed and replacement buses put on. The work this time … Continue reading →

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In Pictures: Work underway for new tram depot at Carlton Colville

Posted on Wednesday 6 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

There is no doubt these are exciting times for the East Anglia Transport Museum. If we’re not reporting on new acquisitions or looking at current members of the collection we’re featuring work on expanding the site and it’s the last … Continue reading →

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Tram extension to Port Erin?!

Posted on Wednesday 6 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

There has regularly been talk on the Isle of Man of extending the Manx Electric Railway along the horse tram tracks in Douglas but what about a major extension all the way to Port Erin?! If a sign in the … Continue reading →

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Birmingham Eastside extension progresses with building demolition

Posted on Wednesday 6 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

The Birmingham Eastside extension, one of four new lines currently being built on the West Midlands Metro, has recently seen more good progress with a derelict college building in Digbeth being demolished. The building has been removed to allow trams … Continue reading →

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In Pictures: Testing comes to an end in Blackpool for now

Posted on Tuesday 5 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

It was planned to take place on five days and it did take place on five days, although they may not have been the five days that had been originally intended, and now the first period of daylight testing on … Continue reading →

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Trams start testing to Edgbaston Village

Posted on Tuesday 5 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

Its been a day of tram testing – whilst in Blackpool its been the last day of testing on the North Station extension (more on that in the next article) down on the West Midlands Metro it was the first … Continue reading →

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Light rail operators look at ways of tackling anti-social behaviour

Posted on Tuesday 5 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

Light rail operators across the UK and Ireland are getting together to look at ways to tackle the increase in anti social behaviour seen across the countries since the lifting of Covid restrictions.

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In Pictures: Heaton Park Tramway have a Tramtastic day

Posted on Monday 4 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

Four trams in service and stored trams on display were amongst the highlights of the Heaton Park Tramway’s Tramtastic event which took place over the weekend of Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd July. Although a two day event this report … Continue reading →

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Trams start running at Crich again!

Posted on Monday 4 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

As promised, Saturday 2nd July was a good day for the Crich Tramway Village as after a little over six weeks trams started running once more! Both days of the first weekend back saw a standard three tram service in … Continue reading →

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Out and About: Trams around St Andrew Square in Edinburgh

Posted on Monday 4 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

“Out and About” returns today as we take a trip to St Andrew Square in Edinburgh – the current city centre terminus of the Edinburgh Trams system – to see some of the trams in service.

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Trams &: Gateshead 10 & Foden Steam Tractor

Posted on Sunday 3 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

In this edition of “Trams &” we take a trip into the Town at Beamish where Gateshead 10 is pulling up to the stop and finds a steam lorry alongside.

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New tram into service and new advert on another

Posted on Sunday 3 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

There’s another couple of changes to the status of the Manchester Metrolink fleet to report on. First off we have seen another of the new batch of M5000s to enter service whilst there is also a new advert now applied … Continue reading →

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Nottingham tram becomes film studio for school pupils

Posted on Sunday 3 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

Pupils from Beeston Fields Primary & Nursey School recently got the chance to use a tram on Nottingham Express Transit to film a video which will be shown at the forthcoming Flying High Trust Awards at the Motorpoint Arena in … Continue reading →

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In Pictures: Blackpool North extension testing hits a snag

Posted on Saturday 2 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

We saw earlier in the week the start of daytime testing on the Blackpool Tramway extension to the North Station terminus with the promise at that point of a full week of testing. But as we all know things don’t … Continue reading →

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