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MATLOCK MERCURY ntage tram service

... MATLOCK MERCURY ntage tram service Thursday, 10th September. 1998 The National Tramway until it came to the Crich museum Museum at Crich celebrat- in 1960. ed a special anniversary The occasion was marked with a when a 95 year old vintage commemorative ...

Published: Thursday 10 September 1998
Newspaper: Matlock Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 183 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Let's vote for trolley buses What a great idea it is to have a tram service Process of reinstating the

... Let's vote for trolley buses What a great idea it is to have a tram service Process of reinstating the trolley buses and installed in Derby city centre. other towns are going to follow. It would be a great attraction as well as What about Derby having ...

Published: Friday 12 January 1990
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: | Words: 217 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AT now houses Farmers

... chequered career. When Mr. Frank Farmer senior arrived in Matloc;; 1897 it was still operating in its original role When the tram service closed. the building was empty for a long time, and the army authorities then took it over for some vears. The next occupiers ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1965
Newspaper: Matlock Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 61 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1975

... couatry girl in Susi.ex and for a ye.:- Signaller Whitwor:h and his pen-pet sweetheart swopped letters. When he retdrned tram service .n Turke and W.:15 posted to Aldershot. S'grtailer WMl,scrth made a specia: trip 10 SU,CA. ...

Published: Thursday 20 November 1975
Newspaper: Long Eaton Advertiser
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: | Words: 70 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

BEACH SPACE

... children during the day. Situated halfway between France and Holland, Ostend is a good base for getting out and about. A tram service runs along the coast linking the French and Dutch frontiers and is an ideal way of making excursions. For the more energetic ...

Published: Thursday 23 February 1978
Newspaper: Long Eaton Advertiser
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: | Words: 141 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

PERCHED

... level by a modern cable car system. And talking of cables reminds us that the very steep Bank Road used to be served by a tram service, pictures of which can, it is believed, still be found around the town. The third of the dominating features is a castle-like ...

Published: Thursday 17 July 1986
Newspaper: Belper News
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 231 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

– A perfect wedding after 1940's separation Two halves of former tramcar are reunited again

... miles apart - in London and Derbyshire - and were finally ‘wedded’ at the National Tramway Museum at Crich. The London tram- service to alleviate iday homes, chicken car (No 1622) was the post-war trans- coo Ops etc. part of a fleet of port problems, but ...

Published: Friday 28 October 1994
Newspaper: Matlock Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 301 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Earlier cablecars never left ground NEARLY a century before Matlock Bath unveiled its Alpine-style cablecar ..

... business from tourism must now regret the controversial decision of the old Matlock Urban Council in 1927 to scrap the tram service because of growing financial losses For the bus and car loads of visitors who will queue for a thrilling flight across ...

Published: Friday 27 April 1984
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: | Words: 1196 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

DERBY EVENING Friday June 5 TERMINUS-ALL CHANGE! Another peep at Bygone Derby SCENE in Victoria Street Derby ..

... Street Derby not long after the introduction of an electric tramway system in 1904 This superseded limited horse-drawn tram service which had operated since 1880 As yet the new-fangled internal combustion engine had made no impact on Derby for horse-drawn ...

Published: Friday 05 June 1970
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: | Words: 280 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

i I K VI'll Great Central Railway I IS4 VISIT A BATTLEFIELD TWYCROSS ZOO in Leicestershire pff M6 (Exit f5j

... Melbourne 2502 Tuesday Thursday Friday 9 a m -12 noon Shop and Tearooms CAR PARKS more from he a OVER 40 VINTAGE TRAMS REGULAR TRAM SERVICE EDWARDIAN PEAK DISTRICT MINERS DISPLAY CAFE AND PICNIC AREA Adults 60p“ Children 40p August Bank CRICH MATLCOK am - 6 pm ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1978
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: | Words: 391 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

DERBY EVENING TELEGRAPH, Saturday, April 5, 1986 5 Marathon DERBYSHIRE doctor lan McGibbon will be running to ..

... tram on the museum's mile-long track. The Lancashire seaside town is the only place in mainland Britain still to run a tram service. Last year an exchange of trams was arranged with the Crich museum to coincide with the centenary of electric trams in ...

Published: Saturday 05 April 1986
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: | Words: 533 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

QUARRY REVIVAL OF TRAMWAY HEYDEY

... trams of its own. the view was once expressed that it might. Some day Long Eaton may he able to boast of posses,ing a tram service. With the extension of the boundaries the town is sure to develop and in 10 of 20 years time it is quite possible that ...

Published: Friday 23 August 1968
Newspaper: Long Eaton Advertiser
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: | Words: 508 | Page: 7 | Tags: none