Sunderland trams No. 7 & 26 on LRTL tour @ Durham Rd./Thorney Cl. Rd. - May 1950

            An old photograph of Sunderland Corporation Transport (SCT) tram No. 7 showing 'Seaburn via Fulwell - Durham Rd' destination blinds on a LRTL tram enthusiast tour. The LRTL were the Light Railway Transport League which was formed in 1937 and renamed the Light Rail Transit Association (LRTA) in 1979.

The photo reverse is initialled by the photographer and negative owner 'ADP' (A. D. Packer - David Packer) and is dated as having been taken 27/5/50.

Thanks to Paul Haywood for the location:-
"Fred, this is at the terminus of the Durham Road extension at the junction with Thorney Close Road."

Thanks to Malcolm Fraser for correcting my mistake and for this information, I assume David was a day out when he put the date on:-
"The side destination of car 7 is DURHAM RD not Mepham Road, which does not exist. The date is Sunday May 28 1950 on an LRTL tour. The other car is 26, hired for the tour, destination SPECIAL."

No. 7 was ex Ilford Borough Council Tramways (Ilford Urban District Council until Oct 1926) car No. 38 built by Brush in 1932 with an enclosed top cover and open driver vestibules seating 26/42 and running on a 4 wheel Peckham P22 truck. The Ilford tramway system ownership transferred to the London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB) in 1933 and it was they who sold this and seven other similar cars to SCT.

It came to SCT in 1937 as a trial car and after arrival was rebuilt with new staircases, enclosed driver vestibules, and reduced in height, changing the seating to 26/34. In 1946-48 it was retrucked with a 4-wheel Maley & Taunton 'Hornless truck, a week or so after the closure of the Durham Road route in Mar 1954 it was withdrawn from passenger service and scrapped.

The parts of the London tramways system that had not already been withdrawn or transferred to trolleybus/bus operation closed in Jul 1952. The parts of the Sunderland tramways system that had not already been withdrawn or transferred to bus operation closed in Oct 1954.

If there are any errors in the above description please let me know. Thanks.

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Taken in: UK / England / Sunderland (show map)

Taken on: May 27, 1950

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