BLACKPOOL ‘Balloon’ car No. 715 has undergone a partial repaint at Rigby Road depot into authentic 1970s livery with full green cab surrounds, complete with period
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Category: Trams
Merseyside group launch £12,000 appeal to finish only surviving Warrington tram
The society hopes the G F Milnes-built double-deck car will be finished by the autumn of 2020.
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Supertram providing free travel for Invictus UK Trials competitors
Supertram has confirmed it will provide free travel for participants of the Invictus UK Trials in Sheffield later this month.
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Toronto ‘Flexity’ trams slowly entering service
TORONTO public transport operator TTC is taking delivery of 204 specially designed Bombardier ‘Flexity Outlook’ light rail vehicles The are numbered 4400-4603 in the series
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Llandudno & Colwyn Bay replica on the road again
THE Llandudno & Colwyn Bay Tramway Society’s re-creation of former Llandudno & Colwyn Bay Electric Railway (L&CBER) open-top double-deck Brush car No. 7 was out on
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Pwllheli horse tram surviving the elements
THE sole-surviving 3ft-gauge horse tram from Soloman Andrews’ Pwllheli & Llanbedrog Tramway appears to be standing up well to the elements at the Plas Glan
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Beamish Museum tram fleet line-up in unusual photo shoot
The parade was arranged in order to take a new crop of promotional photographs for use in future publicity material.
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Boston’s historic high-speed line cars to be replaced?
THE long-term future of Boston’s Mattapan to Ashmont high-speed line Presidents’ Conference Committee (PCC) tramcars is in doubt. They were built in 1945/46 and are
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Nottingham Express Transit (NET) plan expansion to East Midlands Airport
The plans include extending the current line from Toton park and ride to the site of the proposed HS2 station at Toton sidings.
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Is it a bus? Is it a train? It’s a supertram!
John Heaton FCILT takes a look at Britain’s first tram-train operation in Sheffield.
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