{"id":64168,"date":"2026-08-14T22:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T21:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64168"},"modified":"2026-08-14T19:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:15:11","slug":"a-trip-to-the-national-tramway-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64168","title":{"rendered":"A trip to\u2026 the National Tramway Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Its another pictorial article as this time we follow Steven Hughes as he takes a trip to the National Tramway Museum. Photos are included from two visits on Friday 7th<\/sup> and Sunday 9th<\/sup> August 2026.<\/p>\n

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Friday 7th August saw two of the lesser used trams in service and that included the stunning \u00a3500,000 restoration tram \u2013 London County Council 1 \u201cBluebird\u201d. It is seen here at Town End with fellow LCC tram, 106 alongside (a tram which has seen plenty of use this year thanks to the sunny weather).<\/p><\/div>\n

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The third tram in service was Blackpool Jubilee Car 762, which has seen frequent use (normally on a Friday) during the summer holidays so far. With its Pleasure Beach vinyls still in situ it too is at Town End and is also joined by LCC 106.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The crew of Bluebird get ready for the token exchange with 762.<\/p><\/div>\n

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762 and 1 meet at Town End.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The workshop had a very Blackpool feel on this day with the Electric Locomotive joining current projects Brush Railcoach 298 and Centenary 645. A lot has been written on 645\u2019s conversion but quietly alongside that work good progress continues to be made on 298.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Onto 9th August and it was a different set of trams in service led by Blackpool Boat 236. Seen passing The Red Lion.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Glasgow 22 and Leeds 345 were also in service and pass at Stephenson Place.<\/p><\/div>\n

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And 106 was also in service again. We look down on it from Bowes Lyon Bridge in this image. (All Photographs by Steven Hughes)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Its another pictorial article as this time we follow Steven Hughes as he takes a trip to the National Tramway Museum. Photos are included from two visits on Friday 7th and Sunday 9th August 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64177,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64168\/revisions\/64177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}