Stabled in the depot at the Crich Tramway Museum on the 17th October 2015 is Glasgow Corporation open top tram 1068

Tram History
1068 was built for the Paisley District Tramways in 1919 by Hurst Nelson, Motherwell and was originally numbered 68. It became Glasgow Corporation tram 1068 when Glasgow took over the Paisley system and survived in service until 1954. It arrived at Crich in 1960.

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East Midlands Trains 156473 is standing in single line platform at Bulwell working 2H09, 10:55 Nottingham – Mansfield Woodhouse, 1st October 2015. The Robin Hood line here is single track as it shares the original two track formation with the Nottingham NET tram system which can be glimpsed behind the train.

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East Midlands Trains 156473 is standing in Platform 3 at Nottingham and will shortly form 2H09, 10:55 Nottingham – Mansfield Woodhouse which I shall travel on to Bulwell, 1st October 2015.

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London Transport tram 1622 at the National tramway Museum at Crich, 17th October 2015.

Tram History
1622 was built in 1912 by Brush, Loughborough. It was one of two hundred E1 class trams built for London County Council. It passed to the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933 and was one of the one hundred and fifty fourE1 trams refurbished between 1935 and 1937. It was taken out of service in June 1940 and stored inside Hampstead depot until being sold in September 1946. The bottom deck was later found in an orchard near Liss and was acquired by the LCC Tramways Trust together with a top deck from another E1 tram nearby. It was restored in East London and at Crich and returned to service 1997.

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Working a driver experience duty at the Crich Tramway Museum on the 17th October 2015 is Blackpool single deck “Pantograph” tram 167.

Tram History
167 was the first of ten single deck trams built to operate the Blackpool and Fleetwood inter-urban tramway. It entered service in 1928 in a red and white livery with current collection via a pantograph, from which the cars derived their nickname. The pantographs were short lived, however, and the tram soon received the more-familiar trolley pole that it carries to this day. It later wore three different variations of Blackpool's green and cream livery, with the final variation being carried now. During its operational life as a passenger tram, its usual stamping ground was operating the now-closed Fleetwood-North Station service. Once the trams operational life was finished, it became a works tram, retaining its number of 167. It remained in use with Blackpool Corporation until 1961, when the tram was withdrawn and donated to the Tramway Museum Society at Crich. Finally restored in 1985 it has also received overhauls in 1998 and 2008.

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