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no webcam, atleast tell me why....

Trsms 33 & 24 on the L & CB E R.originally ran in Darwen & were similar to the Blackpool Balloon trans.

I live in the area and never knew it existed, marvellous and thank you.

Shame about the lack of video view.

Good morning tram people

The Riverside cam has been down over a week now. Now the Seaton cam is down. I thought these were your big marketing tools😢

I do not watch Seaton since you have closed the chat.

Thanks Mark for putting together a brilliant series of videos👍 All those photos would make a great book about Eastbourne Tramway🤞

Way to massacre the best ever Sandy Denny song ...

Superb series of videos. Thanks for sharing these with us.

I am interested in the layout at Eastbourne, is there are track plan anywhere? Also is the Works building still in existence? Great memories although I only visited the tramway at Eastbourne once at around 7 years old. Cheers Bryan

I quite agree with all your comments john baker from eastbourne

Nice memories for those who had rides on the whole length of this tramway,I was born in 1963,but did not get to go on this,but made a visit to seaton and got a ride on tram no.8.at the time the Edward's style terminus was there,nice to see what it looks like now.r

Sad but necessary move to a seaside town more deserving than dowdy depressing Eastbourne. The best thing in this town is the road out.

Great vid. If a tram ran from Princes Park to the harbour today it'd probably do well.

Great! This tramway was born the same year as me…

Fantastic memories. It is difficult to understand how Claude and Alan, no doubt with help, managed to build new trams and move a whole tramway to a new location in Devon. I wish Seaton would restore Tram No. 8 to the Eastbourne livery instead of that dull navy colour.

At HKTram, when one track separates into two tracks, there is a VECOM radio-controlled point machine and an Czech Elektroline overhead frog. The radio system identifies the tram about 2 metres before the switch. But when two tracks merge into one track, a spring point machine and a spring frog is used. They don't need to be operated, trams just go pass them directly. (There are still some manual point machines and overhead frogs in depots)

Is that a Maley-Taunton brake interlock? I just wonder how it works… The tram controllers in HK are equipped with Maley-Taunton brake interlocks but I can't figure out how they work

This series of films of the Tramway at Eastbourne has brought many happy memories back. THANKS

More great photo's, especially the colour ones👍

I have just noticed that Claude brought the iron gates from Eastbourne that are now on the depot. Does anyone know where they originally came from? JNS Rugby, Warks.

Nice to see yet more pictures from long ago.

Loving this series of videos. This is a fascinating look back into the early days of these trams. This Car 12 certainly had the look and style to suit the name of “Modern Electric Tramways”. Did this tram survive, or parts get recycled into another new tram?

I have been to Eastbourne in the 70s, but never saw the tramway........Unfortunately!

Pleased to see that you have used 3 of my images in this selection - I remember it well

More great pictures from Eastbourne .

A very good Sunday morning to you all in Seaton Devon from Wellington Somerset

Excellent !

Where old people used to go to retire in peace, now thanks to successive governments twinned with hell.

Music is rather punishing.

Am I right in thinking the USA trams have recently been located?

I wonder if the ITV footage still exists?

More stunning photo's, especially the coloured ones!

Another excellent presentation. The letter by M K Stockman says it all about Eastbourne. The best thing Claude did was to find a more deserving town.

Without doubt my favourite tram is number 6. 1962 was the year I first discovered Claude Lanes tramway when I lived nearby in Brighton.

Thanks for sharing this. We took a ride on this tramway I believe in 1964 when I was six. We didn't buy a cine camera until 1967 and we don't have any photos. Just memories. I remember we took a tram similar to No. 6. Also I wondered why the route took us into a wasteland where nobody lived.

Sad. I always like then and now videos but no matter what the subject I always prefer "then".

Not a lot to comment on….no picture!

Claude had links to Eastbourne. Good choice.

There's something so intensely human about these sun-bleached, slightly ramshackle coastal places which just doesn't exist anymore- shorts and pullovers, ice cream cones and a salt breeze, dad in a tweed jacket, and the family Austin parked nearby. Now everything, the shacks, the shingle and the big sky have been removed, and the developers townscape could be anywhere in Britain. "The shoddy splendours of the new civility."

Excellent nostalgic pictures. At 4.07 there is an Austin A30 in Buckingham Green exactly like my Dad's car.

This series is a great look back, with many pictures that I didn’t even know existed. I like to think that Claude would be pleased to see how it is in Seaton now

Excellent, I love the colour picture at 4.07

Has the works car had batteries at any time and can it run without the overhead? I saw one picture of it with no overhead or battery trailer? JNS Rugby.

A very cute tram. The proportions are just right. Thanks for sharing these images.

Many thanks for all the effort creating this video. I grew up with these trams in the sixties and still live in the town. I have often wondered of the exact positioning of the tracks in relation to the current scenes. Wonderful!

Bring back some fantastic memories. Whenever we could choose a day out as kids . We would head for a ride on the trams at Eastbourne. One memory was my late grandmother getting stuck trying to get out of the small cabin of tram number seven. Was sad, too. Lean number 7 is not in service at the moment when visiting earlier this year.😪😪

Great memories.

Like so many others I expect, I rode on the Eastbourne tramway sometime in the 60's, my family lived at the time in Hastings. Having always had a love of all types of railway this was a day out during the holidays. I now live in Dorset an hour away from Seaton and have a ride on the tram when time allows. Excellent video showing the route, unbelievable how much the area has changed, although the route itself is still largely unused.