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Welcome to the Tramways Monthly website!
Launched one year ago (February 2009), Tramways Monthly is an e-magazine devoted to bringing readers coverage of the most of the world's tramways. It has already become one of the most popular tram magazines in circulation, and the best part: it is and always will be 100% free!
Whether it's a traditional tramway system, a modern light rail network or a museum with tramway exhibits, Tramways Monthly has got it covered! The magazine is published at the start of the month, and every issue is full to the brim with an exciting mix of current news items, archive features and plenty of fantastic colour photos, many of which are not available anywhere else. So far we have reported on events such as the Farewell to Fleetwood tram tours and the Heaton Park Leeds event in detail; we have also published a regular feature on all the preserved Blackpool trams - including brief histories, and featured trams from Ukraine and Prague to name just a few.
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Issue 13 of Tramways Monthly was made available for download on the 28th February 2010, and can be downloaded by visiting our magazine archive here.
Tramways Monthly 13 contains:
- EXCLUSIVE! Blackpool's Preserved Tramcars: Where Are They Now? Part Three: 'The Others'
- EXCLUSIVE! What's so special about 2010?
- EXCLUSIVE! What after 2012?
- EXCLUSIVE! Tram 53: Brighton's Last Tram
- EXCLUSIVE! Upgrading Blackpool
- EXCLUSIVE! East Anglia Transport Museum 2009 Pictorial
- New works vehicle for Crich
- Surprise comeback for Brush 626
- 'Princess Alice' 706 to visit Manchester
- Centenary 641 repainted
- News from Blackpool, Heaton Park, Crich and others
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Written by Jack Gordon
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The 2010 Tramways Monthly Calendar is now available to download for FREE in PDF format, in both high and low resolutions.
Featuring images from 12 different tramways, we hope that you will find it useful and enjoy looking at it.
Click a button below to download the Calendar:
 
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Over the next few months, we will be making various changes to our website in preparation to launch a redesigned website. For this reason, there may be disruptions on the website at times and we would like to apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. We will try and minimise disruption as much as possible. |
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Written by Jack Gordon
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Most readers will no doubt be aware of the huge selection of books that detail the history of Blackpool’s famous tramway. However, Tramways Monthly are proud to reveal details of a publication that we believe is rather different from any of the other Blackpool tram books on the market.
A Guide to the Blackpool Tramway has been designed to help people get maximum enjoyment out of a visit to Blackpool for its tramway. Therefore, as well as the usual background information on the current tram fleet, this guide contains lots of handy hints on the best times to see certain trams in service, best locations for photography, and much more. Also included is helpful information on buying a Travelcard, which will hopefully prove very useful to the first time visitor. The booklet is also superbly illustrated with many excellent colour photographs showing the various types of tram that can be seen at the town.
For any readers who want to learn more about trams in general, a list of interesting web links is included, as is brief coverage of the various former Blackpool trams preserved in musuems across the country. Finally, no guide to Blackpool tramway would be complete without a fleet list – and this is laid out in a way that is easy to understand, with colour coding used to distinguish between operational tramcars and those which are currently in store.
Hopefully this booklet will be something that tram fans can refer to and enjoy again and again. One reader who received a preview copy has already said that it ‘will make a great gift for those that love their Blackpool Trams as well as being an essential read for those wanting to know what trams will be spotted’, whilst another stated that ‘it's hard to think of much in the way of improvements’. The booklet has already been hailed ‘unique’ and ‘refreshing’ – we hope that you’ll agree!
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‘A Guide to the Blackpool Tramway’ is available to buy directly from us at a cost of £3, plus an additional charge of 50p for postage. Please click HERE to purchase a copy.
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