Enthusiast's Day - National Tramway Museum, Crich

[nathanmallard]

Hi all,
Today I visited the National Tramway Museum in Derbyshire for their annual Enthusiast's Day. I took many photos at this event, which I will share on this thread:

The first major event of the day was a line-up of London trams. Seen left to right are:
MET Centre-Entrance Feltham #331
London County Council Tramways #1
LT E1/1 #1622
London United Tramways #159
Behind in the depot is Blackpool Brush Railcoach #630.

A closer look at LCC #1

Cardiff City Tramways Water Car #131. Although primarily a works car, I managed to bag a ride on it!

Leeds Tram #345

630 out and about
British Tramways don't have a particularly big following in Trainz at the moment but hopefully this will change eventually. How many British tram enthusiasts are they on here, I wonder?
More to come...

 

[nathanmallard]

London E1/1 #1622

 

[uracco]

Very nice . Not a big fan, but your photos may change that...

 

[nathanmallard]

Thanks uracco! Anyway, some more:

Blackpool Standard 40, seen out of the cab of Cardiff 131.

The magnificently restored London United Tramways 159, only completed last year.

159 again

Sheffield 74 at the town

Horse car line up

The superb Leeds 180

Chesterfield 7

Blackpool 630

Blackpool Boat 236

And finally, well...some of the other tramcar advertisements were tasteful...but this...

 

[JCitron]

Hi Nathan,

These are really spectacular! I love old trams (trolleys over here). We have the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunk Port, Maine. http://www.trolleymuseum.org/ with the largest collection of trams in the world. They are a bit of a drive for me so I haven't been there in a few years, but they are worth the visit when I do.

Awesome pictures. Thank you for sharing.

John

 

[robd]

Great pics! I keep saying to myself that I should visit the Crich Museum, these pictures have whipped up my enthusiasm for a visit, it's not that far from where I live. There doesn't seem to be many 'enthusiasts' in the pictures though!

 

[Vern]

As the author of the Blackpool Tramway in both MSTS and Railworks, I have often thought about doing a tram based route in Trainz. Over the past couple of years I even got as far as starting routes based on such diverse prototypes as Llandudno, Hill of Howth, Sunderland and the Belgian Coast! Unfortunately none stayed the course but I am determined within the next few months to get something done.

Crich is on my "bucket list" of places to visit, for any movie buffs out there the museum features prominently at the start of the UK black comedy film, Sightseers!