Photograph: The 1913 “combination car” motorbus at Crich in 2007, next to a Johannesburg Municipal Tramways No. 60 tramcar. ©Gordon Burch On Sunday 8th July, 33 vintage Leyland vehicles will be on display at Crich Tramway Village, as we welcome the Leyland Society to...
Over the past few months we have been working through our backlog of photographic donations. This involves looking through what has been given to us and checking it against our existing collection to see if we have the images or not. Here is a look at some of the...
Further to the news that The National Tramway Museum has received a National Lottery grant of £84,800 for an exciting project ‘Exploring the Historic Landscape of Crich Tramway Village’, work has begun at Wakebridge with the sandblasting and re-painting of the...
Crich Tramway Village will be running their 1874 Sheffield 15 horse tram on Wednesday 13th and Sunday 17th June. Joseph the Shire horse will be pulling the horse tram between 11am and 4pm and on 17th June, and the conductor will be, volunteer, Joseph Burberry, so...
The National Tramway Museum in Derbyshire has received a National Lottery grant of £84,800 for an exciting project ‘Exploring the Historic Landscape of Crich Tramway Village’. Made possible by money raised by National Lottery players and working with Peak District...
The National Tramway Museum, in Crich Derbyshire has been awarded a grant of £74,500 from AIM Biffa Award for a new permanent exhibition ‘Holroyd Smith – Electrifying the Future’. The History Makers scheme funds museums to create new exhibitions that will inspire the...
In January this year, we began an appeal to raise funds for the purchase of Car No. 5, a trial tramway replacement service bus operated by Barnsley & District Electric Traction Company, from and later by British Electric Traction Group. Thanks to the generosity...
Crich Tramway Village was featured on the BBC programme, Antiques Road Trip on January 25th. The focus of the programme was on how women worked on the trams during the First World War, when many of the men were away fighting for their country, which is the subject of...
The Track Renewal at Cliffside addresses problems we have with drainage and poor top. Our new track uses the 55G2 rail we acquired some years ago. We have used good quality second hand material for our new track and purchase nearly new track relatively inexpensively. ...
It has been a little while since our last update on progress with our Depot refurbishment project, but there has been lots going on and the New Year especially, has seen major progress inside the building. When we last updated you we’d just moved the trams back in...
Crich Tramway Village is a brand name for the National Tramway Museum (Accredited with Arts Council England), solely owned and operated by The Tramway Museum Society, incorporated in England with liability by guarantee (no. 744229). Registered charity number 313615. Our ICO number is Z6700136.