Richard's Tram Blog: June 2015

Sunday, June 28, 2015

CRICH LCC106 ON FRIDAY 26 JUNE 2015 - Frank Bagshaw

I conducted on LCC 106 at Crich on Friday June 26th. Here it is awaiting departure from Town End.

LCC106 awaiting departure from Town End with 'Eric' in the background

Saturday, June 27, 2015

NOTTINGHAM STATION BRIDGE 26 June 2015 - Frank Bagshaw

Three Nottingham trams on test on the new bridge over Nottingham railway station.

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

EARLY PHOTOS OF JOHN SHAWCROSS AND PARROT AT CRICH sent by Bob Lennox (Docherty)

I had an email from Bob in response to the parrot photos taken at John's funeral wake I placed on the blog. The first photo was taken in 1970, and shows John and Ian Musgrove taking Richard Clark for his first tram driving lesson on Rack 2. The site looks like a moonscape, with all the white dust from the quarry crusher covering everything.

The second was taken with Bob's Galah, Rosie, during a visit by some Portuguese friends in 1995.
Here is a short video of Bob with his Severe Macaw, Carmen, which he unfortunately had to leave in Portugal when he returned to the UK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iheAClv9ao


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Sunday, June 14, 2015

CRICH LONDON 106 LAUNCH DAY SATURDAY 13 JUNE 2015 - Hazel Quarmby

Yesterday LCC 106 was returned to passenger service. It rained all day but eased off slightly in the afternoon to enable 106 to run for some of the time.

Town End buses

Range of London bus types

London line up

Trolleybus on loan from Sandtoft and London Fire Brigade van

106 in service

106 at Glory Mine

Friday, June 12, 2015

NOTTINGHAM DEVELOPMENTS 11 JUNE 2015 - Martin Miller

The pace is hotting up - here are a couple of videos from Martin taken on Bramcote Lane, Chilwell.

https://youtu.be/WTv7svgQ_RI

https://youtu.be/neUXcoAM43E

Thursday, June 04, 2015

JOHN SHAWCROSS FUNERAL - VERY FITTING SEND OFF

John's funeral was a very fitting send off and attended by approx 200 people. The service had a reading of 'I am a Tram Man' poem read by Geoffrey Claydon and a eulogy by Colin Heaton about his life and times from a child to his time at BREL and the Tramway Museum. Mourners were brought from Crich in two vintage single decker buses and back to the Red Lion for the wake.

A surprise awaited everyone in the Red Lion where several parrots awaited us - one of the Workshop in jokes from many years ago. A lovely buffet washed down by a couple of John's favourite beers followed. A grand total of £1400 was donated in lieu of flowers for the DLRAA. Christine wishes to thank everyone for their generous donations.

The buses outside the crematorium

The Red Lion Bar

Human parrot

John's memorial on the Red Lion fireplace

BOMBAY TRAM in Kataragama, Sri Lanka 2015 - John Henderson

The Bombay tram at the Film Set Theme Park at Kataragama in Sri Lanka. It was thought that no passenger trams survived from the Bombay system, but it is rumoured several were acquired by a film company, but only this one has surfaced. The tram is now mounted on mock trucks, that are powered by traction batteries and commercial axles with rubber tyred wheels. The film set it is used on is streets of Bombay.