More rail replacement work coming up on Supertram

Posted on Monday 20 April 2020 by Gareth Prior

The final phase of the three year Stagecoach Supertram rail replacement project will get underway in May with the first stage of 2020 works being concentrated at Hackenthorpe and Donetsk Way (Area 1). This work will get underway from Monday 4th May and continue for approximately a month necessitating the suspension of all trams beyond Birley Moor Road.

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Trams &: Wolverhampton & District 34 & Bournemouth trolleybus 297

Posted on Monday 20 April 2020 by Gareth Prior

In this new photographic series we will be featuring trams alongside other vehicles. Whether that be a bus, train, steam road vehicle, car or in this case a trolleybus anything goes during this series! As long as there are at least two different forms of transport we will be featuring it as part of our continued Coronavirus output. In this first edition we are heading to the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley where we see Wolverhampton & District 34 and a Bournemouth trolleybus.

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Picture in Time: Blackpool OMO 1

Posted on Monday 20 April 2020 by Gareth Prior

For this next batch of archive Blackpool tram images we are heading back to 1975 for a series of images taken on a sunny July day. With early advertising liveries starting to make their presence felt plus the OMO cars with their non-standard liveries it was a colourful period for the Blackpool Tramway and we start off with the first of the 13-strong OMO cars.

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Trams in Video: London Tramlink

Posted on Sunday 19 April 2020 by Gareth Prior

We are off to London – or more specifically Croydon – for this weeks video as we head to London Tramlink. The video below was filmed on several visits, mainly between 2005 and 2013 but we do also see some trams from 2000-1.

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In Pictures: Bradford 104 at Bradford Industrial Museum

Posted on Sunday 19 April 2020 by Gareth Prior

In the latest instalment of trams on display which rarely feature on these pages we head to West Yorkshire and the Bradford Industrial Museum where surviving Bradford Corporation Tramways tramcar no. 104 can be found on display.

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What’s New on British Trams Online?

Posted on Sunday 19 April 2020 by Gareth Prior

We head back into the archives again this week with images coming from Midland Metro in 2004:

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In Pictures: Nottingham Station at night

Posted on Saturday 18 April 2020 by Gareth Prior

This small pictorial article takes us to Nottingham Station stop on Nottingham Express Transit for views taken of the trams on a cold and wet evening in mid-December 2019. Taking a look at various examples of the two fleets that operate the services we see both the Incentro and Citadis trams heading in their respective directions across the city to Hucknall and Phoenix Park and Clifton South and Toton Lane. Photographs from Ian Nightingale.

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Around the World in Trams: Vienna 4010

Posted on Saturday 18 April 2020 by Gareth Prior

We’re back a bit closer to home for the next few weeks as we head to the Austrian capital – Vienna.

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In Pictures: Portsmouth 84 at Milestones Museum

Posted on Saturday 18 April 2020 by Gareth Prior

It’s the fully intact tram which is closest to British Trams Online headquarters but barely gets mentioned (indeed I’ve personally only ever seen it once in a visit many years ago!) so its time to change all that! The tram we are talking about is the sole surviving Portsmouth tram, no. 84.

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Children make banner thanking NET drivers

Posted on Friday 17 April 2020 by Gareth Prior

Whilst many of us are currently in lockdown and not able to go out to work it can easily be forgotten that despite a reduced service running on most tramways in the UK a service is still running which requires drivers (and on some systems conductors) to still go to work each day. One such system is Nottingham Express Transit and to show their thanks to these drivers transporting other key workers around the area two schoolboys have paid tribute to them by designing a bright and colourful banner.

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Tram Pub Signs: The Longford, Warrington

Posted on Friday 17 April 2020 by Gareth Prior

This entry into the “Tram Pub Signs” series is a historic one as we are heading back all the way to 1980 for a view of The Longford in Warrington.

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Seaton 7 set to start the road to a return

Posted on Thursday 16 April 2020 by Gareth Prior

At this time of lockdown and the continued closure of all our heritage tramways, a lot of them are trying to keep people entertained with various archive images and challenges and sometimes included in these are snippets of information set to interest us. One recent post on the Seaton Tramway Facebook page has done just that as it mentions a restoration for tram 7 with the aim that it is “back in operation as fast as we can”.

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Picture in Time: Blackpool & Fleetwood 2

Posted on Thursday 16 April 2020 by Gareth Prior

We move forward a little more in time for the next couple of weeks as we reach 1990 for some more images from the archives at Crich.

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Wirral Heritage Tramway plan reopening special

Posted on Wednesday 15 April 2020 by Gareth Prior

This past Easter weekend should have seen the Wirral Transport Museum and Heritage Tramway celebrating their 25th anniversary but with the Coronavirus pandemic this had to be shelved (although if you head to their Facebook page they celebrated the occasion there instead). But not to be put off by the cancellation – and to give us all something to look forward to once this is all over – they have announced that they plan a 25th Anniversary and reopening celebration, although obviously no date has yet been put in the diary for this as no-one knows how long it may be before things get back to some sense of normality.

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Former Apprentice appointed into senior Nexus role

Posted on Wednesday 15 April 2020 by Gareth Prior

Stuart Clarke, who started at Nexus in 1997 as an apprentice electrician, has recently been appointed into the role of Metro Infrastructure Director. In this role he will head up all the maintenance and modernisation work on the 77km Tyne and Wear Metro network.

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Metro track replacement work to go-ahead as planned

Posted on Tuesday 14 April 2020 by Gareth Prior

Work on a 250 metre stretch of the Tyne and Wear Metro trackbed will go-ahead this coming weekend as part of the Metro: all change modernisation programme. The work will be taking place on Crossgate Viaduct over a four day period from Thursday 16th April with full social-distancing protocols in place for those working on the project.

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Still Standing! Cambridge Horse Tram Depot

Posted on Tuesday 14 April 2020 by Gareth Prior

Its off to Cambridge for this edition of “Still Standing!” as we take a look at the only tram depot to stand in the city and one which last saw use in 1914.

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L&CBERS appeal for funds after cancellation of Llandudno Victorian Extravaganza

Posted on Monday 13 April 2020 by Gareth Prior

The Coronavirus pandemic continues to make its presence felt with more events having to be cancelled as we all put social distancing and the effective lockdown into full practice. One of the latest events to be cancelled is the Llandudno Victorian Extravaganza which was due to take place over the VE Day Bank Holiday weekend. This is the most important weekend of the year for the Llandudno and Colwyn Bay Electric Railway Society who display their tram throughout the weekend, raising some much needed funds in the process for the upkeep of the tram and to ensure it can continue to visit the local area and to keep the history alive. Without this fundraising avenue the Society are now appealing for funds to keep no. 7 stored undercover.

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Tram Pub Signs: Tramway Tavern, Chesterfield

Posted on Monday 13 April 2020 by Gareth Prior

We always knew there were likely be other pubs other there that featured trams on their signs and we weren’t wrong! Today we head to Chesterfield to feature the Tramway Tavern which can be found just a short distance from the location of the site of the old Chesterfield Corporation Tramways.

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Trams in Video: Seaton Tramway in the 1980s

Posted on Monday 13 April 2020 by Gareth Prior

As an extra Easter Bank Holiday treat we have an additional “Trams in Video” today as we head back into the 1980s at the Seaton Tramway in this nearly one hour video. The tramway was different to that which we see today and it is well before consideration was given to building the three new higher capacity, disabled access trams so it’s the older fleet that we see. We also see Works Car 01 in use as the ticket office/shop at Seaton and take a trip along the line. It is a truly fascinating look at the Seaton Tramway as it was and we are grateful for Mike Poole sharing the footage, shot by John Money, with us.

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