{"id":57914,"date":"2025-04-03T22:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T21:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=57914"},"modified":"2025-04-03T19:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:37:55","slug":"in-pictures-early-season-at-crich-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=57914","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Early season at Crich"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we have already reported on these pages, Crich Tramway Village \u2013 home of the National Tramway Museum \u2013 opened for the first time in 2025 on Saturday 16th<\/sup> March 2025. Since that date it has remained opened Saturday to Wednesday each week and more trams have slowly been introduced into service. Of course, the museum has also seen three new arrivals with the former MTPS trams arriving last month. This article takes a look at some of the operational trams as well as some of the static exhibits around the depots. Stuart Cooke paid a visit on 30th<\/sup> March 2025.<\/p>\n

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So far during 2025 a limited pool of trams have been commissioned for service which saw the first couple of weeks dominated by just three trams \u2013 Chesterfield 7<\/strong>, Glasgow 22<\/strong> and Sheffield 74<\/strong>. They have since been joined by Leeds 399<\/strong> and Blackpool 630<\/strong> and then on 2nd<\/sup> April a sixth tram was used in service with the return to action of Blackpool 40<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

At the very start of the season (about from the first day) works meant that a revised service was running with trams only able to run between Town End and the Bowes Lyon Bridge and from the Bandstand to Wakebridge. Fortunately, a through service could resume again after a couple of weeks. But at the time of writing the section from Wakebridge to Glory Mine remains to be closed for more work, although that should be open in time for Easter..<\/p>\n