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National Tramway Museum, also known as Crich Tramway Village, in Crich, Derbyshire.

George Stephenson, the great railway pioneer, had a close connection with Crich and the museum tramway follows part of the mineral railway he built to link the quarry with Ambergate.

The museum contains over 60 trams built between 1873 and 1982 and is set within a recreated period village containing a working pub, cafe, old-style sweetshop, and tram depots. The museum's collection of trams runs through the village-setting with visitors transported out into the local countryside and back.

In 1848 a group of enthusiasts on a farewell tour of Southampton Tramways decided to purchase one of the open top trams on which they had ridden. From this purchase grew the idea of a working museum devoted to operating tramcars. From the original group developed the Tramway Museum Society, established in 1955.

After a sustained search across the country, in 1959 the society's attention was drawn to the then derelict limestone quarry at Crich in Derbyshire, from which members of the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society were recovering track from Stephenson's mineral railway for their pioneering preservation project in Wales.

After a tour of the quarry, members of the society agreed to lease – and later purchase – part of the site and buildings. Over the years, by the efforts of the society members, a representative collection of tramcars was brought together and restored, tramway equipment was acquired, a working tramway was constructed, and depots and workshops were built. Members then turned their attention to collecting items of street furniture and even complete buildings, which were then adapted to house the Museum's collections of books, photographs, and archives.

Information Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Tramway_Museum

Taken in: UK / England / Amber Valley District / Crich (show map)

Taken on: June 12, 2021

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