Crich Tramway Village - Ding Ding All Aboard

What a day to visit the Crich Tramway Village. The weather was just perfect, and they were celebrating there 50th anniversary.

The place just blow me away, I figured it would be a bit of a tourist trap but I was very wrong. The whole place is like stepping back in time to the early 1900's. Somehow it felt authentic, not fake as such places can sometimes be.

They have over 50 trams in the shed with 5 of them running today, up and down the main street and along the end of the line past the old quarry.

I can tell you if you want to know anything about a tram this is the place to go, and everyone is so friendly and informative. You can even spend a day learning how to drive a tram... not something we ventured to do but it sounds like fun, we even got to take a tram with a trainee, he was doing very well.

We were fortunate enough to get a tour of the workshops, where they showed us restorations in progress and explained a bit about the work they do.

On our final ride before departing, the tram broke down. The circuit breakers blew, with a loud bang, causing much debate amongst the conductors and drivers as to the cause and how bad it might be. There is wild garlic growing around the place, and they couldn't decide if they could smell garlic or electrical burning. It was interesting observing the debate.

An excellent day's outing.