FIREFIGHTING TRAM...

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Interesting. Once more there seems to be a prototype for modeling just about anything you can think of. How about a funeral tram? I wonder if Tramcar Trev has one of those on his roster.
 
That's a cracker of a tram and great uniforms too! For those of a railcar persuasion, there are also firefighting models, including these specially-built Wickham railcars which used to be at the MoD ammunition depot in Kineton, Warks:
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For scale bit and bobs for an intrepid modeller to kit one out, there is plenty to plunder from a Revell 1/24 Fire Jeep:
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:)
 
ROSS said:
None at all. No details given on the Firefighting site I found it, just the photo.
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It's just that the tram looks bachmannesque, but the people and buildings could be British :-\ :-\
 
the crew look like they are the lifeboat crew!
 
Rhinochugger said:
That may explain the bachmannesque style of the tram :) :)
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see all those old trams look very similar of that vintage. I wonder is it a early pre photoshop joke? the rubberised coats would burn really well in a fire.
 
Quote from Madman; "Interesting.  Once more there seems to be a prototype for modeling just about anything you can think of.  How about a funeral tram?  I wonder if Tramcar Trev has one of those on his roster."

Many tramway systems had dedicated funeral cars. Mexico City apparently had a roster of no less than thirteen (is that unlucky?) such trams.

Don`t know where this tram (below) is from;-

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London had its` own purpose-built Necropolis railway and, no doubt, there were other cities with such a provision.
 
trammayo said:
London had its' own purpose-built Necropolis railway and, no doubt, there were other cities with such a provision.
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'London's' Necropolis railway ran out to Woking (using LSWR lines) it was the Necropolis station that was below the level of the main platforms at Waterloo (although I don't think I've seen a clear picture).

The line left the LSWR main line near Woking for the Brookwood cemetery (which remains privately owned) and, if my memory serves me well, there were two stations, one for those who's allegiance was to the church of Rome, the other for those who followed Henry V111's lead.
 
The most well know Funeral van must be the Carvell van at the Kent and Sussex

http://www.kesr.org.uk/stock-register/wagons/remembrance
 
Yes, although there's Winston Churchill's GUV painted brown and cream to match the Pullmans that one of the preservation societies was trying to retrieve from somewhere the other side of the Atlantic.


And the Ffestiniog had one - Ks did an 009 white metal kit of it in the 60s :)
 
I went to Dresden last year, and though modern, I was very impressed with how they have different ideas for trams. I saw a couple of freight trams, I think they were Volkswagen(?) and even a road sweeper tram!
 
Maidstone Corporation back in the days of Trolley buses, had a Road sweeper Trolley and a Refuse bin Trolley
 
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