Depot overhead wiring works - installation commences...

Depot overhead wiring works – installation commences…

The Beamish Tramway Group, with Tramway Electrician Hugh Penman, have made a start assembling the various brackets and hangers required to wire Road 4/5 using the previously prepared components.  Various enquiries for new wire have thus far yielded not even a reply, so new avenues are being explored, though there is believed to be enough wire in stock to carry out the stringing of the positive line.  The photos, by Peter Barlow, below, show the hangers in place – following the existing depot principle with a positive and return wire in order to suit trolleybus operation in the future and enable 501 to be more readily shunted in due course…  Work also continues on the book to accompany the fortieth anniversary of the tramway – more details on this as well as the GNFoT in due course…

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