This layout is based around the time of about 1938, it incorporates trams of the city, of London and Glasgow, from time to time you will see a Dover Corporation Tram.

 All of the trams running on this layout are Corgi conversions.

 The heyday of trams is a difficult period to identify. In numerical terms the number of trams reached their peak, some 14,000, in the mid-1920's; but even by that stage a number of smaller

 systems had fallen by the wayside. Alternatively, the 1930's witnessed a considerable investment in new lines, and vehicles by a number of important operators, most notably Sheffield,

 Liverpool, Leeds, Glasgow, and even London.

 Whilst simultaneously the axe was wielded elsewhere, even in 1943 there were almost 7,000 trams in operation in Britain, and a large number of towns and cities had no well defined plans

 to abandon them.

 Fifty years on, we can look back in hindsight and see that the abandonment of the tramcar was, in large measure, a serious mistake; the traffic problems caused by cars and lorries on

 today's roads remain a problem, indeed these problems have got a great deal worse each year. With the opening of the Manchester Metro-Link project, Britain has gained its first new

 street tramway for 40 years; the wheel has turned full circle, may it continue.

 

 Layout Size: 8ft by 1ft