Two of our long standing volunteers in engineering, Mike Crabtree and Peter Whiteley (Project Leader) visited the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways Boston Lodge works to view progress on the new underframe they are working on for Blackpool 298 this week. They...
A lot of the tramway rail track at Crich Tramway Village has been in place for over fifty years, when the line at Crich was first extended to Wakebridge in around 1966.Staff, volunteers and contractors are busy replacing the section known as ‘the Bandstand Curves’,...
Our Facilities Team were back bright and early in the new year working on our major track renewal at the Bandstand curves. The new northbound line has now been laid, so the final top layer of ballast could be installed along its length. Shortly the final alignment and...
Since the last winter project update, our team has been busy focusing on our major track work renewal. 500 new hardwood sleepers have been laid out in the main car park, drilled and fitted with base plates. With the old track removed, the sleepers are next brought to...
Our major restoration project London County Council No. 1 has been making some really good progress in recent weeks. Over on our Facebook page we recently shared a video of the restored trolley bases being refitted to the roof of the tramcar, and now our latest blog...
Over the past couple of weeks our overhead line team have been making good use of the fine weather to install new trolley wire round our relaid Glory Mine terminus.All the major installation is now completed and we are focusing on final positioning of components....
This week we reached an important milestone for our track relaying project at Glory Mine.Over the weekend, a team of our volunteers finished laying the last few rails which will form the end of our line. Thursday, our overhead line staff successfully negotiated this...
Our staff and volunteers have been out enjoying the sun this week while conducting the annual pre-season inspection and maintenance of our overhead line equipment. With much of our overhead equipment having originally served on first generation Tramway and trolleybus...
Our Traverser has now returned from a comprehensive overhaul thanks to Chesterfield Crane Company. The Traverser plays an important role at the museum as the sole means of access to the tramcars on display in our Great Exhibition Hall and Depots 5 & 6. (Below left...
With the approach of Spring and the re-opening of our tramway, work has stepped up towards completion of our major trackwork renewal project at Glory Mine.In our last update we showed you how fresh ballast was being levelled and compacted to form a firm base while the...
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