History of the National Tramway Museum

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

The Workshop & the Bookshop

1. Looking across the workshop from the public viewing gallery. Richard Stead and Matthew Linaker at work on the roof of Chesterfield 7.
2. Looking up at the public gallery from the workshop floor with Mike Crabtree and Peter Bird entertaining a young visitor.
3. Daleks and Cybermen in the bookshop.
4. More to my taste pictures of London buses and various trams are also on sale.
Photographs taken at the National Tramway Museum, Crich, Derbyshire.



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Wet trams

1. Glasgow 1297.
2. Glasgow 22.
3. Leeds 180.
4. Interior view of Leeds 180 with wet trees outside.
Pictures taken at the National Tramway Museum, Crich, Derbyshire.

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Saturday, May 26, 2007

Saturday

It is unusual for me to visit the National Tramway Museum on a Saturday. I did so this morning to attend a meeting.
1. An old entrance sign behind a new fence.
2. A group of trainee drivers and conductors receiving instruction on the access tram.
3. LCC 106 and Johannesburg 60 were in service.
4. The other side of 60.



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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Roger Webster

A warm and sunny day with Glasgow 22 and LCC 106 in service.
1. Putting 106's trolley on the wire.
2. Roger posing at the controls of 106.
3. Customer care.
4. In Roger's absence, Southampton 45 has been lifted from its truck.


Friday, May 18, 2007

Irish Penny

Another showery day but warmer than earlier in the week. Leeds 345 and Blackpool 167 were in service.
1. Liverpool 869 and Leeds 399 parked on the depot fan in the morning.
2. London Transport 1622 had been for a test run before the service started.
3. Leeds 345 and Leeds 399 - again before the service started.
4. The boy on the left is my dad. Signed Kieran Lomas.



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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

London & Glasgow

Another cool and showery day.
1. The service cars were Met 331 and Glasgow 22 seen here at Town End.
2. 22 at Glory Mine.
3. Customers.

Pictures taken at the National Tramway Museum, Crich, Derbyshire.


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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Trams from two capital cities

A cool showery day with Leeds 180, Berlin 3006 and Met 331 in service.
Pictures taken at the National Tramway Museum, Crich, Derbyshire.