British Trams

Thats what I thought but apparently they have two battery electric locos as well but one is in bits, and the locos pushed the trolley/truck up the hil, I cannot find a pic of it tho'
dunnyrail said:
St Michaels Mount Tramway is not a true Tram system as such, see the roller at the Left hand Side. It uses/used? a Cable to haul a Wagon up the grade with supplies.
JonD

 
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The above pictures, of Birmingham trams, show how narrow the cars were, as they were running on the "standard" gauge of 3 foot 6 inches, as Birmingham, The Black Country, Kinver Light Railway, parts of Staffordshire inc Wolverhampton, all used this gauge. Alyn
 
Nice set of piccy's Alyn. I like. Sometimes cant beat these b/ws for atmosphere.
 
The narrow gauge trams and the metre gauge continental trams ideal for building in IIm, Alyn
 
I used to work from Fulwell bus garage until a couple of years ago, there is still alot of reminders left that it used to be a major tram dept. Above the entrance to the garage there is still the numbered plates for the dept sigings, and cable hangers within the garage itself. Years ago the garage was split in two, and the back half was left relatively untouched, including the rails that ran right up to the border of the road. There was question of it being kept as a listed site, but then London United rented the ground to Travel London, who promptly layed tarmac over the lot, including a massive area of cobbled and railed land. To say a few people had the hump would be an understatement!
 
I haven't noticed it mentioned here but Model Engineer has been running a series called "From Novice to Expert" - building a Preston type open top tramcar in 1:16. I'd say the author was much more of an expert than novice myself - but there have been some very interesting ideas there and it would mostly scale down (if you had the patience and desire) I found it interesting just for some ideas which could apply to building wooden framed carriages.
Regards
 
Nice one Ian, and welcome to GSC. I hadn't heard of that one, I must look it out. Construction details could be very useful.
 
You could make a set of castings out of resin of a three window "Preston" car, a bit like the Bec castings, but in 15mm/1foot. That would be fine for 3ft 6"cars. Another way would be to vaccum form a complete side, and then join two sides together. Any ideas folks??Alyn.
 
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