Trams: Is There Much Tramway Interest On Here??

PhilP said:
Nothing on trams for ages.. Then three of you pop-up together!! ;):giggle::giggle:

Hat, coat, door!!

Mind you, I did purchase a copy of The Railway Magazine, as I am originally from Nottingham and there is an article on the two new lines they have opened..
Was there another 'tram' person who was after travelling on all the tram routes?? - Bit like the Branch-Line Society.

I had thought of mentioning it on here..
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There is also an article about the release of 'Big Boy' 4014, and its' restoration..

In fact, quite a bit of interest..
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I was for a few years traveling every route on every system in uk every year. Last year was the first that that madness ceased. I now try to just do each new extension/line on the year that they open. Sad I know.
JonD
 
Helps with the unemployment numbers too.
 
In answer to the question that is the thread title - Mick has been running a variety of trams on the Ox Mountain Railway these last few days :clap::clap::clap:
 
Another of my photographs of a tram trundling through the streets of Soller, Mallorca, 22.6.2010 copied across from the Coffee Lounge.

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David
 
Rhinochugger said:
Memories, only memories, but yes, keep up with the tram piccies - even I don't have memories of trams running in the London suburbs (although my Nan always talked about catching the tram when she meant the bus) all I saw was tram rail embedded in the granite sets at Fulwell depot.
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the crossover at Fulwell depot, alas has been tarmaced over, so far as I know, the only visible tram track in London, is at the northern ramp of the Kingsway subway and a short section on a plinth on Ilford High street. (would welcome news of any other )
A ride on the top deck, over Westminister bridge and up through the tunnel to Holborn was a regular treat, until the system closed in '52, when I was six years old.
 
Rhinochugger said:
That looks a bit upmarket for Birmingham :lipssealed::lipssealed::lipssealed:
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The CAF ones are rather different to the awful Ansaldobreda T-69 ones that opened the line in 1999.
Thankfully, they have all been replaced now, though one of them was still parked up at the Depot when I passed it last Thursday.
Several extensions on the cards now for the line, and the first of the trams has just been fitted with batteries for operation on some of the new sections that will not be equipped with overhead wires.
 
p.williams said:
No - a Box shaped object for conveying people is London transport's 'S' stock trains, with it's all sideways seating - the stuff of nightmares!
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I once heard a Calcutta tram described as a rectangular block of humanity with a trolley pole sticking out of the top !
 
Miamigo259 said:
The CAF ones are rather different to the awful Ansaldobreda T-69 ones that opened the line in 1999.
Thankfully, they have all been replaced now, though one of them was still parked up at the Depot when I passed it last Thursday.
Several extensions on the cards now for the line, and the first of the trams has just been fitted with batteries for operation on some of the new sections that will not be equipped with overhead wires.
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It wasn't just the tram - the buildings look very unlike Birmingham as I remember it :tmi::tmi:
 
AustrianNG said:
Steve Lewis started this thread in 2015 and has long since changed scales and rolling stock since then.
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Yeah, it's surprising how this thread has trolled along, and apart from the usual banter, there are some interesting pictures coming up along the way.

it's unusual for Steve to change direction :giggle::giggle::giggle::giggle::giggle:
 
3 random Tram Pics from 2011 at Rostock.
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The lovely turning circle that used to exist at Rostock Hbf (circa to 1978) has been replaced by this impersonal Tram Subway Station. But at least there is a thriving and extended Tramway from the old days of East Germany.
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JonD
 
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