Model Trams Model Tram WWW Links

Here are a selection of links to other model tram web sites, which readers may find of interest.

UK Model Tram WWW Links

The following index lists some other WWW pages containing model tram information in the UK.

Blackpool in the Box Tram Layout

Len and Gary Squance have a web site which describes their Blackpool in the Box model tramway layout, which is illuminated with fibre optic lighting and fits inside an old television cabinet. The web pages include all the information about the construction of the layout together with technical data.

Bridge Street Tramway

Gerald Warner's website has details his 4mm scale Bridge Street Tramway, which includes working road vehicles.

Gordon Bulmer

Gordon Bulmer has a website describing the work of a number of tramway modellers in the North East of England.

Hasselhof(f)

Steve Smith has a website with details his 3.5mm scale model tramway layout Hasselhof(f), loosely based on the various European cities he has visited.

Walmington Pier Tramway

Dave Carson shows us his Walmington Pier Tramway layout, an H0 scale model which represents a fictitious small pier tramway of the Edwardian times.

Whitburn Corporation Tramways

Andrew Burchell describes his Whitburn Corporation Tramways layout, an 00 scale model of a small town tramway system located somewhere in the North East of England.

Overseas Model Tram WWW Links

The following index lists some other WWW pages containing model tram information in other countries.

Denmark

The Danish Model Railroad Club has pictures of old Danish trams on their Dansk Model Jernbane Klub web pages.
At the menu, you can select: Foto-album
Then select: sporvogne (=trams)

France

Jacques Berengier gives us a model website (in French and English) which includes a section on tramcars (Trolleys) in H0 scale, many scratch built.

Germany

• Jan Ruppert's Modelstrassenbahn website (in German) has useful links to German manufacturers.

• The Strassenbahnmodelle-2m website (also in German) covers modelling in 1:22.5 (G scale) with photos of scratch built trams and the methods for their construction.

Hong Kong

Joseph Tse's website on Hong Kong trams (in Chinese and English) has a few pages on model trams, including some models by John Prentice.

Netherlands

• Peter van Bommel gives us Trams en Modeltrams (in Dutch) which has details of full size and model trams with databases for specific types and products.
  

• Also in with model trams in Dutch is the website of the Haagse Module Groep
  

• Again in Dutch is Mark's Mark's Modeltrambaan, which describes his layout "Rheinberger Straßenbahn Betriebe".
  

United States of America - Societies

East Penn Traction Club

The USA's largest and oldest modular trolley modelling group! If you share an interest in the history and/or modelling of U.S.A. streetcars, trolleys, interurbans, subway or rapid transit cars, or any other aspects of electric transit railroading, prototype or model, we encourage you to find out more about the East Penn Traction Club of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania through this outstanding web site.

It is a major reference point into the whole 'trolley' hobby in the U.S.A. If it is a little difficult to contact at times, keep trying because it is well worth it!

Electric Railway Historical Association

The Electric Railway Historical Association has the ERHA/LA Colors WEB Site which discusses colour schemes of USA trolley cars.

NMRA

The web site of the NMRA, the USA Model Railway organisation.

Trolleyville

Trolleyville is an entertaining complete little town for model tram enthusiasts. It includes a school (teaching how to hang overhead), a library, shopping area and listing of factories.

Thanks to Bob Appleton and Brian Robinson for their contributions to this page.

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