Overhead line damage leads to severe Metrolink disruption

Posted on Wednesday 16 February 2022 by Gareth Prior

There were big problems for Manchester Metrolink on Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th February after a major overhead line problem in the Trafford area led to the complete suspension of services on the Altrincham and East Didsbury lines with others seeing severely restricted services running. The issue was first reported around 1830 on the Tuesday evening with a limited service able to start again from around 1500 the following day.

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Out and About: Atmospheric conditions in Birmingham

Posted on Wednesday 16 February 2022 by Gareth Prior

For this edition of “Out and About” we show that it doesn’t always have to be sunny to capture decent photos of trams!

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In Pictures: Trams return to the full circuit at Beamish!

Posted on Tuesday 15 February 2022 by Gareth Prior

Since the tram service resumed at Beamish in September 2021 trams have been unable to run all the way around the tramway circuit with the section passing the Events Field between Foulbridge and the Town closed requiring maintenance works. That is until now as after a short period of testing trams have started running on the full circuit again – for the first time in very nearly two years!

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In Pictures: Update from the city end of the Trams to Newhaven project

Posted on Tuesday 15 February 2022 by Gareth Prior

Whilst a lot of our attention recently in Edinburgh has been taken by the closure of the York Place tramstop there has been no let-up in construction works on the full extension to Newhaven. In this update we head out onto the new line – due to open in 2023 – to see some of that recent progress at the city centre end of the line. We’ll have another update soon further along the line.

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Southampton 57 makes the move to Romsey

Posted on Tuesday 15 February 2022 by Gareth Prior

We reported just before Christmas of a significant development for Southampton 57 with its ownership being transferred to the Solent Sky Museum as it was set to be moved to further storage ahead of decisions made on its future. This move took place in mid-January with the tram being transferred the relatively short distance between Hampshire County Council’s Museums base at Chilcomb near Winchester to Solent Sky’s off-site storage in Romsey.

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In Pictures: Edinburgh Trams’ new temporary terminus at West End

Posted on Monday 14 February 2022 by Gareth Prior

Unless you haven’t been concentrating recently you will be well aware that its been all change on Edinburgh Trams following the permanent closure of the city centre terminus at York Place to allow more work to take place on the Trams to Newhaven extension. This meant that as from Thursday 10th February all trams from Edinburgh Airport have been terminating at West End All and will continue to do so until April when they will start to run to St Andrew Square until the extension to Newhaven opens in 2023. Continue reading this article to see the arrangements in place at West End.

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Metrolink’s Eccles line to close for rail replacement works

Posted on Monday 14 February 2022 by Gareth Prior

The Eccles line is to be closed on several occasions in 2022 to allow for rail replacement works to take place. The first closure will see no trams on the line for eight days during the February Half Term holidays – 19th to 27th February – before further partial closures will follow during the Easter and Summer school holidays.

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Still Standing! Birmingham Snow Hill Tram Stop

Posted on Monday 14 February 2022 by Gareth Prior

Its not just first generation tramway structures that we can feature in this series as there are also some old modern tram system survivors including the original Birmingham City Centre terminus of the then Midland Metro route at Snow Hill.

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Stop by Stop Nottingham Express Transit: Central – Hyson Green Market

Posted on Sunday 13 February 2022 by Gareth Prior

The last part of this section of Nottingham Express Transit’s “Stop by Stop” sees us reach Hyson Green Market.

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Work continues on the Seaton Wetlands Halt

Posted on Sunday 13 February 2022 by Gareth Prior

2022 should see two new stops opened on the Seaton Tramway with the winter period having seen significant progress being made on the all new halt at Seaton Wetlands, despite the challenges of a soggy and wet winter when much of the construction work has been taking place.

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Out and About: Driver Training in Sheffield

Posted on Sunday 13 February 2022 by Gareth Prior

Today’s latest “Out and About” is heading to the Steel City as we feature the Stagecoach operated Supertram system once more.

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What’s New on British Trams Online? 13th February 2022

Posted on Sunday 13 February 2022 by Gareth Prior

There#s a double-helping of photos as part of this week’s main site update – from the archives and from the past week or so:

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In Pictures: West Midlands Metro returns to Library for the first time in over 200 days!

Posted on Saturday 12 February 2022 by Gareth Prior

Saturday 12th February 2022 – mark that date in your diaries as that was the date that passenger services between Bull Street and Library in Birmingham City Centre finally started running again. There were 202 days between the last day of service on 25th July and the first day of the resumption on 12th February with trackworks and then tram shortages causing the suspension of services.

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Around the World in Trams: Tallinn 173

Posted on Saturday 12 February 2022 by Gareth Prior

The next stop on our world tour of trams is Tallinn in Estonia.

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Drip, drip – TfL funding extended by another two weeks

Posted on Saturday 12 February 2022 by Gareth Prior

The hoped for long-term funding settled between the Department for Transport and Transport for London is still waited for with the latest announcement confirming a further two week extension in funding from 4th February until 18th February 2022.

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Out and About: Back to Edinburgh

Posted on Saturday 12 February 2022 by Gareth Prior

In this latest edition of “Out and About” we are back in Edinburgh City Centre as we take a look at another of the trams carrying an advert at the time of photographing.

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More progress on Blackpool Railcoach 279’s restoration

Posted on Friday 11 February 2022 by Gareth Prior

Its been a while since we last gave an update on the restoration of the Fylde Transport Trust’s Railcoach 279 but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been more progress on returning the tram to service – far from it with the majority of work which can be done at Brinwell Road now completed.

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Rail to be replaced on London Tramlink next week

Posted on Friday 11 February 2022 by Gareth Prior

There will be no trams running between Wandle Park and East Croydon on London Tramlink from Saturday 12th to Sunday 20th February to allow for track to be replaced at Reeves Corner.

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Picture in Time: Midland Metro 03

Posted on Friday 11 February 2022 by Gareth Prior

“Picture in Time” returns to Midland Metro today as we take another look at one of the T69s in service.

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In Pictures: York Place closed as its all change on Edinburgh Trams

Posted on Thursday 10 February 2022 by Gareth Prior

Wednesday 9th February was, as expected, the last day that trams would be running in passenger service from the York Place terminus with it being closed from the following day to allow further work on the Trams to Newhaven project to take place. Whereas often you see something close and then wait and wait for something to happen the work crew moved in straight away to set about removing the stop.

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