Trams: Is There Much Tramway Interest On Here??

A G Scale Bachmann Tram running on The G Scale Society East Midland Group's indoor layout 'Walesby' running at the Large Scale Model Railway Exhibition, Fosse Way, Warwick, 18.3.2018

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David
 
Rhinochugger said:
Looks like there's a bit more that's dummy in that photo - the King Kong tower and it's shadow on the sky - can you explain, Gavin?
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Classic model railway technique... half relief buildings, and a painted backdrop. I've cropped the photo so you can't see where the backdrop ends, and the real sky starts.
 
Gavin Sowry said:
Classic model railway technique... half relief buildings, and a painted backdrop. I've cropped the photo so you can't see where the backdrop ends, and the real sky starts.
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The original snapshot. That black mark in the top corner is the window frame of the tram I was in. Pretty satified with the 'rescue' job I've done on this. Tip, never delete anything until you have tried to enhance/crop etc. it. If that fails, then, yes, delete it.
 
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David1226 said:
A double decker tram on the Smoghampton layout at the Large Scale Model Railway Exhibition, Fosse Way, Warwick, 18.3.2018. Unfortunately I can tell you nothing about the origins of the model.
David
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Brumtrams/Alphagraphix - as advertised on the side of the car - certainly did (and possibly still do) a range of 4mm/7mm scale card models of buses/trams/railway equipment. They may have produced some items in larger scales and I know they did commissions for models - you just had to order a minimum quantity to get them to produce a particular prototype.
I know, as I was involved in getting them to produce a selection of 4mm kits about 25 years ago!

The model looks if its made from something a bit more substantial than cardboard though....
 
Having posted this on an inapropriate thread I though it prudent to post it here as it is seriously related to this thread. Sorry if this link is elswhere in this thread I did do a search!

 
I remember reading a story a long time ago about the last great tram race - does anyone know anything about that? How much of a fiction was it? Anyone ever read it or heard of it?
 
Rhinochugger said:
I remember reading a story a long time ago about the last great tram race - does anyone know anything about that? How much of a fiction was it? Anyone ever read it or heard of it?
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It was published in one of the newspaper colour supplements (Sunday Times, I think) in the late 60's. It was all quite convincing at first - and then the 'come on' sensation began to creep in. They had used some good depot photographs to represent the starting line and a good back-story, even with quotes from a 'period' sportsman's magazine 'Top Volts' (!!). Great fun....and all nonsense :-)
 
mcbearuk said:
It was published in one of the newspaper colour supplements (Sunday Times, I think) in the late 60's. It was all quite convincing at first - and then the 'come on' sensation began to creep in. They had used some good depot photographs to represent the starting line and a good back-story, even with quotes from a 'period' sportsman's magazine 'Top Volts' (!!). Great fun....and all nonsense :)
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Well, I think that's the thing - in the '60s I would have been an impressionable teenager ...............and believed it. It's only as I got a bit older, but no wiser, that reality began to rather grate with some of the story line which was, let's face it, quite good :clap::clap: which is what stories are meant to be :nod::nod: simply good stories >:)
 
Now for something a bit further away:

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Its the Enoden - the Enoshima Electric Railway running between Kamakura and Fujisawa via Enoshima south of Tokyo.

More an interurban rather than a tram it does have a reasonable length of street running. I'll post some more pictures on the trains on the street thread.
 
MTheStrong said:
I have just returned from a weekend in Dublin and travelled the 2 LUAS tram routes. Here are some pictures from the visit:

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Dublin like Manchester is getting to what I call "critical mass" I.E. Where the system is getting towards the size of the originals that were closed. Be a long time before any other system reaches that level. But we must be thankful for what we have in UK, I remember a time when the only Street Tramway in UK was Blackpool, how things have changed?
 
1/24rh scale 45mm gauge San Francisco Cablecar built from an OcCre kit by Keith Lambert of G Scale Society Solent Local Area Group, part of his display at their bi-annual exhibition, Wickham, Hampshire, 4.11.2017

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David
 
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