I have to agree with the chap from Crich ... it is an absolutely stunning restoration and certainly doesn't look it's age. They've outdone themselves this time! Thanks for posting this.👍
What a handsome vehicle, and so evocative of the era it came from. Those who restored it should be so proud of their efforts - what a superb job they have done!
Stunning indeed 😊 I was lucky enough to get a look at this beauty last week, and it bowled me over with its quality and style! Well done to everyone involved 🥰
The Bluebird is beautiful. If only we cared today to make trams, buses and trains as wonderful as this. Relax and have a smoke on the top deck. If only!
There are a few new buses and trains that look really wonderful. I like the new routemasters aesthetically, although their functionality needs an upgrade. And I think the S Stock on the District Line etc. will be remembered very fondly in 50-60 years time.
When I lived in Derbyshire, I went to the Tramway Museum at Crich several times. It’s a great day out. You get unlimited tram rides and there is a lot more to see besides.
What a wonderfully comfortable, classy tram. A shame we didn't have them in Sydney except for a brief exoeriment with double deck electric trams early 20thc. Odd because our former steam trams were largely double deckers and ran for decades along Elizabeth Street.
It was the Felthams that gave London's trams the modern look. Leeds bought them in the early 1950s and the 'cars' rather liked their sleeper tracks compared with the concrete-based ones of London.
I wonder how similar it is to the North American PCC (Presidents Conference Committee) cars that the presidents of American street railways established in the 1930s to develop the cars that are still running down Market Street in San Francisco and a few routes in Philadelphia. Musing, because they too are quite comfortable.
It was built before the technologies in the PCC car were introduced, so has no modern (1930s !!) control equipment, and the trucks do not have resilient wheels, that make the PCC car such an advance. However, it was a huge improvement over the rather ancient trams that were operating at the time.
I wonder if the controls and breaking system is still the original as fitted by LCC? In a 1970s book, a former LCC/LT tram-driver mentions how many drivers were intimidated by it and for the last few years in London only a few drivers would drive it.
I have to agree with the chap from Crich ... it is an absolutely stunning restoration and certainly doesn't look it's age. They've outdone themselves this time! Thanks for posting this.👍
What a beautiful tramcar! Truly a credit to its builders and to its restorers.
What a handsome vehicle, and so evocative of the era it came from. Those who restored it should be so proud of their efforts - what a superb job they have done!
Stunning indeed 😊 I was lucky enough to get a look at this beauty last week, and it bowled me over with its quality and style! Well done to everyone involved 🥰
Just gorgeous! The chrome, that lovely recessed lighting, the jazzy moquette, and all that glass. A world class restoration.
That is a beautiful restoration.
That is a really amazing restoration of LCC tram No 1. Of course everything changed in 1933.
I drove H-Type Trams in Adelaide from '89 to '93.
They were built in 1929 and ran until 2006
The Bluebird is beautiful. If only we cared today to make trams, buses and trains as wonderful as this. Relax and have a smoke on the top deck. If only!
Alas if they did make them like this today, they would be vandalized within a month.
There are a few new buses and trains that look really wonderful. I like the new routemasters aesthetically, although their functionality needs an upgrade. And I think the S Stock on the District Line etc. will be remembered very fondly in 50-60 years time.
What a stuning tram great craftman ship in them days great video mr t ingal
When I lived in Derbyshire, I went to the Tramway Museum at Crich several times. It’s a great day out. You get unlimited tram rides and there is a lot more to see besides.
Well done Crich, looks and runs great!
Enjoyed your video, what a beautiful looking machine.
Life in a dignified, upholstered age.
Trams were so obsolete that they're now being reinstated
Top marks for the tram & this video item.
An absolute credit to all involved in a remarkable restoration.
What a wonderfully comfortable, classy tram. A shame we didn't have them in Sydney except for a brief exoeriment with double deck electric trams early 20thc. Odd because our former steam trams were largely double deckers and ran for decades along Elizabeth Street.
In the days of the cinema when you had to leave quickly at the end of the film, or you'd miss the last tram home!😄
Lots and lots of chrome. Good job, looks magnificent
10 out of 10.
Stunning indeed!
Sehr schön.
Wonderful. Looking forward to riding on it next year.
If the world could only embrace that level of craftsmanship today, we'd all have much more civility. Civility died as craftsmanship was devalued.
Stunning, thanks Tom , will visit again next year always interesting, and thanks for sharing,
Stunning.
What a gorgeous tram, we really have gone backwards especially Blackpool getting rid of theirs. (Ex Routemaster bus driver, best buses ever built)
It was the Felthams that gave London's trams the modern look. Leeds bought them in the early 1950s and the 'cars' rather liked their sleeper tracks compared with the concrete-based ones of London.
Remember the Bluebirds in Belfast in the 1950s. Kept the conductor out of the rain👍
A stunning restoration, but, apart from the jazzy interior, in what way was it a "completely new design of tram"?
I wonder how similar it is to the North American PCC (Presidents Conference Committee) cars that the presidents of American street railways established in the 1930s to develop the cars that are still running down Market Street in San Francisco and a few routes in Philadelphia. Musing, because they too are quite comfortable.
It was built before the technologies in the PCC car were introduced, so has no modern (1930s !!) control equipment, and the trucks do not have resilient wheels, that make the PCC car such an advance. However, it was a huge improvement over the rather ancient trams that were operating at the time.
@@frasermitchell9183 Thanks.
DC line voltage all that was the same
I wonder if the controls and breaking system is still the original as fitted by LCC? In a 1970s book, a former LCC/LT tram-driver mentions how many drivers were intimidated by it and for the last few years in London only a few drivers would drive it.
1:46 when you see a tram on the motorway
Certainly a tourist attraction.
I wonder if this ever travelled past my home very close to Cressy Road Tram depot and South End Green. My have to find a way yo visit Crich.
No, the nearest it would have been was Holloway Road and The Archway Tavern
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