Douglas Bay Horse Tramway |
IM1 5PT Douglas,, Great Britain (UK) (Isle of Man) |
|
| Address |
King Edward Rd.
|
| Floor area | unfortunately not known yet |
Museum typ
Exhibition
Trams
- Carriages
|
Opening times
|
30th April - end of October | ||||
|
Status from 10/2016
|
We don't know the fees. | ||||
| Contact |
|
||||
| Homepage | www.gov.im/categories/travel-traffic-and-motoring/bus-and-rail/heritage-railways/horse-trams | ||||
gov.im 
Our page for Douglas Bay Horse Tramway in Douglas,, Great Britain (UK), is not yet administrated by a Radiomuseum.org member. Please write to us about your experience with this museum, for corrections of our data or sending photos by using the Contact Form to the Museum Finder.
| Location / Directions |
Douglas is the capital and largest town of the Isle of Man. The Douglas Bay Horse Tramway on the Isle of Man runs along the seafront promenade for approximately 1.6 miles (2.6 km), from the southern terminus at the Victoria Pier, adjacent to the Sea Terminal, to Derby Castle, the southern terminus of the Manx Electric Railway, where the workshops and sheds are located. |
| Description | DescriptionThe tramway is 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge, double track throughout, running down the middle of the road. Service is provided by 23 tramcars and some 45 horses. There have been several types of tramcar, and at least one of each type has been retained. Most services are maintained by "closed toastracks", with winter saloons and open toastracks also in semi-regular service. In summer trams are stabled outdoors overnight adjacent to the Terminus Tavern public house, and there is a purpose-built tramshed where they are stored in winter.FleetThe remaining core of service trams represent a cross-section of various types of car used on the line over the years; notable exceptions from the current fleet are an umbrella car (one of which survives as a souvenir shop elsewhere) and a convertible car, although one of these survives in private ownership. This was the last of three cars from 1935 which were dubbed "tomato boxes" owing to their unconventional appearance. On 27 August 2016, after Douglas council took ownership, six trams were sold at auction, numbers 28, 33, 34, 37, 39 and 40 |
Radiomuseum.org presents here one of the many museum pages. We try to bring data for your direct information about all that is relevant. In the list (link above right) you find the complete listing of museums related to "Radio & Co." we have information of. Please help us to be complete and up to date by using the contact form above.
[dsp_museum_detail.cfm]
| Data Compliance | More Information |