Andrew Simpson

I have long had a fascination for trams and I have just bought Eltham and Woolwich Tramways which contains “a wealth of nostalgia with m...

Now I missed travelling on a tram by just a matter of years, but had I been born a little earlier I might well have been on this one that...

So just as you think you are in the French town of Strasbourg, along comes a blue tram with Welcome in Italian embellished on the side. And ...

I have never hidden my obsession for collecting street furniture, be it a lamppost a coal hole cover, or an old manual petrol pump. Some sti...

And why not? The network may only run for 15 miles along two lines with 22 trams but then the city according to one source is “of a managea...

Now it’s slim pickings when you come to look for information on the tram network in the German city of Ulm. But then it only operates two li...

 Munich trams are blue. A blue Munich Tram, 2024 But my travelling chum assures me that apart from being blue they are just like our yellow ...

Now, I am reliably informed by my Prague chums that tram route 22 is the one for getting to see all of the city’s attractions.  It offers br...

Now, if you know where to look you can find a tram in Naples.   On the Corso Garibaldi, 2006 This one runs to the Corso Garibaldi and...

Now it is odd just what you can miss on a visit to Milan. Crossing under the Porta Nuova 2013 Some of our family live just a little n...

Now like all good things the lost 1950’s collection was not really lost just misplaced. The collection was passed onto me by a friend a...

Now Budapest is not a city I have visited, so it has been fun to see the place through the camera of Julie Thomas. Julie told me “I ...

Now the trams of Budapest are proof that nothing beats a journey on a bright yellow tram. That said the city’s trams have had their u...

Now I know route number 40 never went through Well Hall We had  routes 44 and 46, but this one is close enough. It ran via the Old Ke...

I always like those little messy stories which are not what you expect and take you off in all sorts of directions . The Amerikaer in V...

Now I have to confess that I have only visited Blackpool three times and have never travelled on one of the trams. All of which is my l...

This is a tram story, although along the way it reveals a bit of detective work, includes one of those preservation societies and ends in a...

This is tram car 541 on Route 24, which takes you across Lisbon from Largo do Camões in Chiado to Campolide. And it is one those old tr...