History of the National Tramway Museum

Monday, April 22, 2013

MORE SUNNY LISBON ON SUNDAY from Luis Vieira

































 
Sunday at Lisbon with marvellous sunshine

Around the Cathedral after a superb organ concert
Before the football derby Benfica - Sporting (the flag on the top of the building on third photo) 
 


Friday, April 19, 2013

SPRING ARRI VES IN LISBON from Luis Vieira

Some Lisbon trams under the Spring sunshine, last Sunday.






Sunday, April 14, 2013

GREAT ORME ON FRIDAY 12 APRIL 2013

I went to a conference in Llandudno on Thursday 11-Sunday 14 April and managed to get time out to ride and walk the lower half of the Great Orme Tramway.  It was a rather murky and cold day which was a shame, but all seemed to be running well.  I stayed at a very nice B&B only 200 yards from the Tram Station on Church Walks - Lynton House - which I would highly recommend, only down side is there is no lift.

No 6 on start of  journey down to middle station

No 6 and 7 about to pass

You can see the poor visibility with the faded out cable car in the background



No 5 just rounding the corner on the way up

No 5 on the way up to the lower crossing point

No 4 coming down after crossing with No 5

Walking the lower half of the route is very steep and  interesting, but hard on the knees!

Sunday, April 07, 2013

VICINAL VIEWS DVD - Views from 1986 and 1992




Here is the first production from the Richard Lomas Archive of DVD's.  The footage is taken from two visits to the Vicinal in 1986 and 1992 with a short amount of footage of the Grottes de Haan Autorail, using Richard's video films.  The DVD is 1 hour 17 minutes duration with the natural sounds and no overlaid musical effects.

If you would like to purchase a copy of this DVD the price is £12.99 inc P&P in the UK,  and postage to other countries can be quoted on request.  Payment via Paypal would  be preferred or cheques.  Please contact RichardandKath@gmail.com if you would like to order a DVD, in the first instance.

This is the first production from the archive and more will follow in due course. The next one will be Soviet Scenes taken in 1990, showing the tramway and trolleybus systems of the former USSR as it was in the process of breaking into separate countries. (now Ukraine (Lviv), Belarus (Minsk), Latvia (Riga), Lithuania(Vilnius), Estonia (Tallinn) and Russia (Leningrad)

Friday, April 05, 2013

SEMANA SANTA (Holy Week) IN SEVILLE from Luis Viera

Luis visited Seville  in Holy Week and took these photos and said 'Sevilla is very typical, but dresses a specially beautiful look on Semana Santa'.

Three Sevilla trams Urbos 3 - CAF, along the line shortcut by Semana Santa (Holy Week) celebrations.