2025 Meetings

Jack May

January 17, 2025


Blackpool, United Kingdom: Two modern LRVs pass in the town of Fleetwood, north of the resort of Blackpool on the Irish Sea. The Flexity units were built by Bombardier in 2010 and are shown near the Victoria Street stop in a popular residential and shopping neighborhood in this community of 26,000 people. Photo by Jack May
Sheffield 264 and Porto 196 load for clockwise and counter-clockwise trips (respectively) at the highly popular Beamish Open Air Museum near Newcastle in Britain's northeast. The "Balcony" four-wheeler was built in 1907 and remained in service in Sheffield until 1956. The single-decker alongside was built in the Boavista shops of the Carris in Porto, Portugal in 1935 using plans from J. G. Brill in Philadelphia. It is painted in the blue and yellow livery of a tramway that once operated in South Shields, a suburb of Newcastle. Photo by Jack May

Please join our Zoom presentation on January 17 at 7:30 PM

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Traction in the United Kingdom 2024

Our January 2025 presentation will be by ERA’s longtime conventions and international trip chairman and past editor of Headlights, Jack May. Jack visited the United Kingdom this past July and will report on the latest transit developments on that side of the Atlantic. New extensions have been completed in Blackpool, Birmingham and Edinburgh, as well as Britain's first tram-train is now in operation in Sheffield. And new cars have finally been delivered to Newcastle. But the program will not only be confined to modern light rail systems. Jack will also take us to the historic sites of Beamish, Crich and Seaton, where heritage trams provide visitors with a taste of electric traction from the days when streetcars were kings of the road, prior to World War II. London will not be forgotten as Docklands Light Railway, Croydon Tramlink and especially the Underground, including the new Elizabeth line, will be covered. Jack also made brief appearances in Stourbridge and Manchester.

Please join us on Friday, January 17th for Jack’s exciting and diverse program!

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