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The Secret of Laxey Siding. ....

‘Modern Tramway’ in January 1964 carried an article by J.H. Price about the process involved in getting Snaefell rolling-stock to Derby Castle for maintenance.

The article included a step-by-step photographic record of the operation. ...

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/08/30/the-secret-of-laxey-siding/

The Modern Tramway and Light Railway Review of November 1963 carried an article by C.S. Dunbar about the Kingsway Tramway Subway. It seemed an opportune moment to focus on the Subway as the southernmost portion of the tunnel was just about to open to motor traffic as the Strand Underpass.

An image in an earlier article about the last few years of London’s tram network prompted some response. .... So, having read his article, I thought that reproducing most of C.S. Dunbar’s article here might be of interest to others. …

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/08/28/the-kingsway-tram-subway-london/

Earlier articles about London's trams can be found here:

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/179740-the-modern-tramway-journal-in-the-mid-20th-century/?do=findComment&comment=5239453

A return to Nice is in the offing and I have turned back to books by Jose Banaudo.

Jose Banaudo published a two volume set of books about the historic trams of Nice, “Nice au fil du Tram.”

This is the first of a series of articles based on the second volume. (Jose Banaudo; Nice au fil du Tram, Volume No. 2: Les Hommes, Les Techniques; Les Editions de Cabri, Breil-sur-Roya, France, 2005). The books were published as French language texts, quotations directly from the books have been translated with the assistance of ‘Google Lens’ and ‘Google Translate’.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/08/26/the-first-generation-electric-tramways-of-nice-again-four-of-the-urban-lines-chemins-de-fer-de-provence-alpes-maritimes-no-88/

This is a third article about railways in the Isle of Man. Each is a retrospective, looking back at events in the history of the railways.

Modern Tramway Journal included a short article in October 1963 about developments in 1899 on the Isle of Man, and particularly about the use of 'Bonner Wagons' by the Isle of Man Tramways and Electric Power Company Limited which became the Manx Electric Railway.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/08/24/going-piggy-back-in-1899/

The Lilleshall Company's Railways and Tramways served Old Lodge Furnaces and Granville Colliery. This next article looks at that part of their private rail network. ....

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/08/18/the-canals-tramways-and-railways-of-east-shropshire-the-lilleshall-company-old-lodge-furnaces-and-granville-colliery/

Teelin Bay, Teelin Pier and Co. Donegal Railways

What happened to the proposed extension to the Killybegs branch of the Co. Donegal Railways to Teelin Pier?

The short answer is that it did not really get beyond the imaginations of a few folk in the Glean Cholm Cille (Glencolumbkille) and Carrick area of Co. Donegal.

The linked post is a 'flight of fancy'. ....

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/04/26/teelin-bay-teelin-pier-and-co-donegal-railways/

Thank you for this. For about 8 years my parents lived in Lesmahagow. I did a bit of travelling around the area at that time.

Would you mind me adding you're photos to my blog article?

The July 1962 issue of ‘Modern Tramway’ included a short article about the Carstairs House Tramway, written by Christopher T. Harvie. It appears that it was the first permanent installation of its type in Scotland. ...

Wikipedia says that the Carstairs House Tramway operated between Carstairs railway station and Carstairs House between 1888 and 1895. Railscot has slightly different information. It indicates that the tramway opened in 1889 as an electric tramway but reverted to being horse-powered by 1896. It continued operating in this way until 1925.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/08/08/the-first-permanent-electric-railway-in-scotland-the-carstairs-house-tramway/

I have asked the moderators to move it. Thanks for letting me know.

Slipped up, sorry, should be on a different area of the forum. Not sure how to move it.

In June 1962, the ‘Modern Tramway’ carried a report by J. W. Higgins and Ralph Forty entitled ‘A New Electric Interurban in Japan’. 

The Izu Express was at that time Japan’s newest railway. It had opened on 10th December 1961.

In the 21st century, the line is known as ‘The Izu Kyūkō Line’. It is a privately owned railway line of the Izukyū Corporation in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

The line approximately parallels the eastern coast of the Izu Peninsula, a tourist district noted for its numerous hot spring resorts, and golf courses, between Itō Station in Itō and Izukyū Shimoda Station in Shimoda.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/08/08/japan-the-opening-of-the-izu-express-modern-tramway-june-1962/

Modern Tramway and Light Railway Review, June 1962 carried an article based on notes by H.J. Bertschmann, G.A. Meier and M. Frei about then new articulated trams in these two Swiss cities.

Both the Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe and the Verkehrsbetriebe der Stadt Zürich had taken delivery, in the months prior to the article being written, of the first prototypes of a new design of articulated tramcar. The design was a new departure, a double-articulated tram on three trucks. Earlier models of articulated cars had  two sections on two or three trucks, or three sections on two or four trucks, but never before three sections on three trucks.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/08/03/articulated-tramcars-for-basel-zurich-modern-tramway-june-1962/

As part of a batch of magazines from the 1950s and 1960s I picked up a number of editions of ‘Modern Tramway’ from 1963 into 1964. ‘The Modern Tramway’ was the journal of the Light Railway Transport League (LRTL). By 1963 it had dropped the ‘The’ and was published jointly by Ian Allen and the LRTL. Its formal title was ‘Modern Tramway and Light Railway Review’.

The February 1963 edition of the journal was priced at 2s 6d.

Among a number of articles in the journal was a piece by G. Hyde, The Strange Tale of No. 2.

This No. 2 was Beyer Peacock steam tram engine No. 2. It is shown in the featured image in which it is seen at Beyer Peacock’s works in Gorton, Manchester.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/07/26/modern-tramway-in-the-early-to-mid-1960s-february-1963-the-strange-tale-of-no-2/

In 1957 the Manx Electric Railway was nationalised by the Manx Government. The Modern Tramway Journal reported on this in the late 1950s.

https://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/06/19/the-modern-tramway-part-7-the-manx-electric-railway/

It followed this report with a review of progress in its June and July 1962 editions. ...

https://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/08/06/manx-electric-tramway-1957-to-1962-a-review-5-years-after-nationalisation/

This next article is about The Humber Arm of the Newport Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal and the Lilleshall Company's tramways, and later mineral railway, which connected the Arm to Old Lodge Furnaces and to a number of coalmines and ironworking sites around Donnington in present day Telford and Wrekin.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/08/01/the-humber-arm-canal-and-railway-east-shropshire/

This next article is about The Humber Arm of the Newport Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal and the Lilleshall Company's tramways, and later mineral railway, which connected the Arm to Old Lodge Furnaces and to a number of coalmines and ironworking sites around Donnington in present day Telford and Wrekin.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/08/01/the-humber-arm-canal-and-railway-east-shropshire/

The Humber Arm Railway linked an earlier canal branch (which ran from the Newport Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal at Kynnersley to a wharf at Lubstree close to The Humbers, a small hamlet North of the old LNWR mainline through Donnington and on the North side of Venning Barracks, the base of the 11th Signal Brigade and Headquarters West Midlands, part of the British Army's 3rd UK Division.) with the Lilleshall Company's private rail network.

The 'Modern Tramway' reported in January & February 1963 on a relatively short-lived experiment on Blackpool's trams. The Marton route was an inland route through Blackpool which complemented the promenade route.

The two articles were written by F.K. Pearson who suggested that his articles could perhaps have been entitled, 'The Experiment That Didn't Quite ...'

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/07/29/modern-tramway-blackpool-the-marton-experiment/

The final three years of the historic tram network in London ... and Operation Tramaway. ...

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/07/17/london-tramways-1950-1951-and-1952/

A return visit to Govilon included a visit to private land around the location of the Ironworks to the West of the village, the Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway, and Bailey's Tramroad. ...

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/07/15/a-second-visit-to-govilon-baileys-tramroad-and-the-heads-of-the-valleys-line-part-2/

This is again only a short length of Bailey's Tramroad. There is more to come in due course.

This next linked article covers the remaining length of the Burtonport Extension Railway from Barnes Gap to Letterkenny. ....

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/07/13/the-burtonport-extension-of-the-llsr-londonderry-and-lough-swilly-railway-part-4-barnes-gap-to-letterkenny/

Thank you. I have replaced the link. It should now be working. ...

I have recently finished reading an excellent book published by the Lightmoor Press: "The Tralee and Dingle Railway," written by Michael Whitehouse. This is my review of the book:

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/07/09/the-tralee-dingle-railway/

In the 1950s, a tram Glasgow purchased some years before, a 'one-off', unidirectional double decker car which it numbered 1005 and which was sometimes known as the 'Blue Devil' for its unconventional three tone blue colour scheme, was put forward by the LIght Railway Transport League as an option for trails that the League hoped might happen in London. 

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/07/08/glasgow-tramcar-no-1005/

A retrospective look back at London tramways at the end of the 1940s. ....

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/07/07/the-modern-tramway-a-quick-look-back-at-1949-in-london/

The Modern Tramway, May 1957 – Rotterdam’s Trams in the 1950s

This short article could be entitled, ‘The Modern Tramway takes on the Manchester Guardian‘. In. Its May 1957 journal the Light Railway Transport League asks whether its readers had read the Manchester Guardian on 22nd January. The featured image shows trams in Rotterdam in May 1957.

In an article entitled ‘A Twisted Tale’, The Modern Tramway Journal was surprised to see the Manchester Guardian being taken in by the spirit of the current age which was decidedly anti-tram!

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/07/01/the-modern-tramway-may-1957-rotterdams-trams/