Trams &: Blackpool 227 & coach

Posted on Sunday 24 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

We’re off to the coast for this edition of “Trams &” as we feature a heritage tram alongside a much more modern coach in Blackpool.

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Amendment to Manx Summer Transport Festival schedule of events

Posted on Sunday 24 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

The Manx Summer Transport Festival is just a few days away and it is set to give a varied programme of events across the Isle of Man’s heritage transport systems – with the Manx Electric Railway once again playing a pivotal role in the celebrations. The previously announced programme has had to be slightly tweaked due to engineering constraints but despite that it still looks set to be another excellent event on the Isle of Man!

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Extra late night trams for Edinburgh Festival

Posted on Sunday 24 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

There will be trams until 0130 on Fridays and Saturdays during August to help visitors and residents alike make the most of events taking place during the Edinburgh Festival. Trams will run every 20 minutes until the normal close of service after which there will be a special 20 minute frequency.

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What’s New on British Trams Online? 24th July 2022

Posted on Sunday 24 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

There are two sets of photos this week – Tramtown in Blackpool and the opening of the West Midlands Metro extension to Edgbaston Village:

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Horse Trams to resume later this month?

Posted on Saturday 23 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

It looks as if a service will finally run on the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway again later this month. Even potentially as early as next week’s Transport Festival. The news of their imminent return was revealed in Tynwald earlier this week.

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Around the World in Trams: Lviv Holovnyi Railway Station

Posted on Saturday 23 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

Its that time of the week again when we go “Around the World in Trams”. Lviv in the Ukraine is again the location.

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Modern preserved tram for the scrapman?

Posted on Saturday 23 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

When the fleet of Midland Metro T69s were sold at e-auction in 2018, several examples were saved including one which was due to preserved by Birmingham Museums. But now after four years of storage at Long Marston it appears that 11, still in its Birmingham Corporation inspired livery, is about to be scrapped as it has been seen on a low loader close to Sims Metal UK in Newport – a location well known for the scrapping of UK rail vehicles.

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In Pictures: 3143 enters service on Metrolink

Posted on Saturday 23 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

The latest M5000 to enter service on Manchester Metrolink is 3143 which was first noted in use on Wednesday 20th July. Unsurprisingly, this is the 143rd M5000 to run in service in Manchester and now means that 175 different trams have run on the network in passenger service since 1992!

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MER overhead wires felled by canoes…

Posted on Friday 22 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

Problems with overhead wires on tram systems across the British Isles isn’t exactly a new phenomenon but we’re not sure we’ve reported on a situation quite like this before. Services on the Manx Electric Railway have been suspended between Derby Castle and Laxey since Wednesday 20th July after a pick-up with a Land Rover and a load of canoes brought the wires down at Halfway Crossing.

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Big concrete pour on Trams to Newhaven project

Posted on Friday 22 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

The largest concrete pour so far has taken place on the Trams to Newhaven project. This latest significant milestone in the project saw 130 cubic metres of concrete poured on the bridge deck of Tower Bridge on Ocean Drive. The pour was undertaken by main contractors, Sacyr Farrans Neopul (SFN) and took approximately eight hours to complete earlier in July.

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Picture in Time: Blackpool OMO 10

Posted on Friday 22 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

We return to Blackpool for our next batch of Picture in Time images as we head back 45 years to 1977 for another excellent set of images from the camera of Donald Brooks.

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Seaton Tramway’s new halts to open from 1st August

Posted on Thursday 21 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

There will be the chance to get off a tram at five different locations on the Seaton Tramway from Monday 1st August when the two new halts officially open. Riverside and Seaton Wetlands have been in the planning since 2019 but their planned opened in time for the 50th anniversary of the tramway in 2020 was delayed but they are now ready to welcome their first passengers in time for the main summer holiday period.

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In Pictures: Paramount+ advert on Metrolink 3087

Posted on Thursday 21 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

We mentioned a few weeks back that Manchester Metrolink M5000 3087 had received a new advert for Paramount+ and now we bring you photos of it! The advert was applied back in June 2022 and is the first full advertising livery that this tram has received since entering service in September 2014.

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In Pictures: Goodbye fencing as part of Leith Walk prepares to reopen to traffic after two years

Posted on Wednesday 20 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

As mentioned in the article on the overall construction schedule for the Trams to Newhaven project slipping slightly, part of Leith Walk was due to reopen to traffic from Monday 18th July. The section in question is that between Annandale Street and Pilrig Street which has seen disruption for two years and in preparation for this reopening fencing was removed over the weekend of 16th/17th July.

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Metro performances goes up and then stays there!

Posted on Wednesday 20 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

It has been a couple of months since we last took a look at Tyne and Wear Metro performance – but that doesn’t matter a great deal as in the first period we take a look at in this article it went up and in the second it stayed exactly in the same place!

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In Pictures: The arrival of Metrolink’s new trams continues

Posted on Tuesday 19 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

Saturday 16th July saw the latest new M5000 for Manchester Metrolink arrive in its new home city with 3144 being delivered to Queens Road Depot as normal. The 144th of the class to have been delivered its arrival now means that we only have to wait for three more to come and at the current rate it looks set to be at some point in September that the milestone final delivery is made.

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The heat! Services affected across the UK after record-breaking temperatures

Posted on Tuesday 19 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

If you’ve been in the UK over the past few days you may have noticed that its been a tad warm. With record-breaking temperatures experienced nationwide, tram systems have had to introduce revised services with both speed restrictions and infrastructure damage being experienced.

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In Pictures: Trams take a backward seat at Buses at Beamish event

Posted on Tuesday 19 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

The chances are that if you’ve ever visited Beamish (outside the pandemic and all the restrictions that brought of course) that a major part of your trip has been the trams. Whether interested in trams or not they have been there to transport you around the vast museum site but over the weekend of Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th July it was their chance to take a bit of a rest as it was the Buses at Beamish event with many visiting buses offering rides and on Saturday 16th just the one tram in service – Blackpool 31.

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In Pictures: 42 inaugurates public services to Edgbaston Village

Posted on Monday 18 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

It may be around eight months later than scheduled but trams are now finally running to Edgbaston Village after the second phase of the West Midlands Metro Birmingham Westside extension officially opened on Sunday 17th July 2022. The first tram to run with passengers on board between Library and Edgbaston Village was Urbos100 42 with nine other trams also in use to operate the planned 12 minute frequency service on this first day of service.

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Chesterfield 7 latest tram to return to service at Crich for 2022

Posted on Monday 18 July 2022 by Gareth Prior

As we start to approach the main summer season and with the UK currently in the middle of a heatwave more fair weather trams are being commissioned for service at the Crich Tramway Village. The latest tram is open balcony car Chesterfield 7 which was used for the first time in 2022 on Saturday 16th July.

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