Category Archives: Heaton Park Tramway

The Manchester Transport Museum Society have acquired the unrestored body of Oldham 43, a tram which has been languishing in outside storage on a farm for more than sixty years! The ultimate intention is to restore this tram for service … Continue reading →

After seemingly endless delays and complications, work on the new tram depot for Manchester’s Heaton Park Tramway has finally commenced. After various materials and plant were delivered to the work site, near to the park’s boating lake, work on laying … Continue reading →

Now that the go-ahead has been given for work to proceed on the construction of a new tram depot at Heaton Park in Manchester, it is pleasing to report that visible progress is finally being made on this exciting project. … Continue reading →

The Heaton Park Tramway in Manchester has hosted a few low-key events recently which have previously gone by unrecorded here on British Trams Online. To set the record straight, we now catch up with what’s been happening at the park, … Continue reading →

As has been reported extensively in the past on British Trams Online three of the trams of the Heaton Park Tramway are currently stored at the East Lancashire Railway: Balloons 702 and 708 and Railgrinder 752. A recent supervised visit … Continue reading →

Due to an event taking place within the grounds of Manchester’s Heaton Park, the heritage tramway there will be closed on Sunday 9th June. The park is playing host to the first ever ‘Parklive’ music festival, headlined by rap artists … Continue reading →

Following numerous unavoidable delays, it is extremely pleasing to be able to report that final approval has now been granted for the construction of a new tram depot at the Heaton Park Tramway in Manchester. Tuesday 28th May was the … Continue reading →

The Heaton Park Tramway is taking full advantage of the upcoming school half-term break, with a rare midweek opening on Tuesday 28th May. This day will see the first ever Teddy Bear’s Picnic event held at this tramway. It had … Continue reading →

Heaton Park 7, also known as Blackpool Replica Vanguard 619, was involved in an unfortunate incident at the Heaton Park Tramway in Manchester on Bank Holiday Monday, 6th May during a routine shunting procedure. The tram left the rails at … Continue reading →

On Tuesday 30th April, some new track was delivered to the Heaton Park Tramway, Manchester to assist with the new Lakeside Depot project. The rails had been acquired from Welshpool a little while ago, and were transferred to the tramway … Continue reading →

As reported earlier this week, work on the refurbishment of Leeds 6 at the Heaton Park Tramway in Manchester continues to progress, with a small team of dedicated volunteers working extremely hard to restore the car to a smart appearance. … Continue reading →

Since Leeds 6 returned to the Heaton Park Tramway after operating at Beamish Museum for the last three years, a significant amount of work has been undertaken on the tram in order to return it to a more dignified appearance … Continue reading →

Since its return to the Heaton Park Tramway following an extended stay at Beamish Museum, a great deal of work has already been undertaken on Leeds 6 to reverse the effects of many months of outside storage. The tram has … Continue reading →

We have recently been sent a link to a video on YouTube showing the recent Spring Gala at the Heaton Park Tramway, held on Sunday 24th March in very unpsringlike weather. You can view the 10 minute video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp0c3ZfVjzo … Continue reading →

As reported previously, Leeds 6 finally departed from Beamish Museum on Thursday 4th April having enjoyed a three-year long stay there on loan from its owners, the Manchester Transport Museum Society. The tram arrived back at Heaton Park later the … Continue reading →

The Manchester Transport Museum Society used their recent Spring Gala event on Sunday 24th March as a platform to announce exciting plans to restore another historic tram from the Greater Manchester area. The MTMS have owned the remains of Rawtenstall … Continue reading →

The Heaton Park Tramway’s first proper event of 2013 took place on Sunday 24th March, in the shape of the highly-anticipated ‘Spring Gala’. As reported previously, the event organisers were struck by bad luck on several occasions in the run-up … Continue reading →