Ye Olde Tram Shoppe
Photographed outside the Seaton Tramway’s Riverside depot, car 01 served as a mobile souvenir shop. It still shows its previous identity, when it was part of a 2ft 9in gauge tourist operation in Eastbourne. That closed in 1969, and the Eastbourne rolling stock was transferred to Seaton to run on the trackbed of the former Southern Railway branch line.
Car 01 was one of the original scratch-built trams verily for the Eastbourne operation in 1954. It was converted to a works car in 1960 and then further transformed to become this mobile shop five years later. In this role, it lasted until 1995, then becoming a staff mess van and kiosk. Today it is stored out of use, its future undecided.
October 1973
Zorki 4 camera
Agfa CT18 film.
Ye Olde Tram Shoppe
Photographed outside the Seaton Tramway’s Riverside depot, car 01 served as a mobile souvenir shop. It still shows its previous identity, when it was part of a 2ft 9in gauge tourist operation in Eastbourne. That closed in 1969, and the Eastbourne rolling stock was transferred to Seaton to run on the trackbed of the former Southern Railway branch line.
Car 01 was one of the original scratch-built trams verily for the Eastbourne operation in 1954. It was converted to a works car in 1960 and then further transformed to become this mobile shop five years later. In this role, it lasted until 1995, then becoming a staff mess van and kiosk. Today it is stored out of use, its future undecided.
October 1973
Zorki 4 camera
Agfa CT18 film.