The Seaton Tramway has been running for a few weeks again for its latest season (mostly weekends but also throughout the local February school half-term holidays) and that means the first newsletter with details of tram mileage, as well as ongoing maintenance work.
The mileage figures (which cover February although seem to be possibly missing out the last day of the month) show that just five of the trams were used in service for the opening couple of weeks and its probably no surprise considering the weather that is including three enclosed saloons.
Although 14, 15 and 16 all saw use during February none of those three actually hit the top of the charts as that was taken jointly by the highest capacity trams (and open top!) 9 and 10. Both the double deckers covered 240 miles.
At the time of the figures being released 11 had not been used in service but this made its season debut on Saturday 28th February.
Maintenance work on the trams has been continuing over the winter and this will include the fitting of replacement stairs on 9, 10 and 11. Its planned that the work will be finished on the trio by the end of March.
Other work at the depot has been concentrating on 6 which is being treated to a full repaint. This will see the tram completed in green and white again, although the shade of green looks set to be slightly lighter. The floors are also being repainted.
Tram mileage:
9 – 240 miles
10 – 240 miles
14 – 180 miles
16 – 168 miles
15 – 114 miles
- Seaton Tramway will be running at weekends until Sunday 29th March and its then daily operation all the way until 1st November. For details of the planned timetable on each day visit https://www.tram.co.uk/calendar