Black Country Living Museum, includes trams & trolleybus

Not a railway related museum, but there is a working tramline & trolleybuses.

Many old buildings from the around Black Country have been demolished, brick by brick, and rebuilt on this site. The canal runs past the site & it is possible to travel on battery-powered canal boats through the tunnel under Castle Hill. Their web site will give you much more info:-

Black Country Living Museum

For some of my trolleybus photos from the Museum "trolleybus event":-

Trolleybuses at the Black Country Museum

 

cool sites and do you want them on the list?

 

The Black Country Living Museum is probably of general interest to many people, so it would be useful to have that link in.

The trolleybus pages are just parts of my site, which cover a lot of different subjects. My Severn Valley site is already listed, but everything really comes under the heading of Sharpo's World at:-

http://www.sharpos-world.co.uk/

Just occasionally it can help give people extra info as with the trolley photos, but I wouldn't expect those sort of things to be listed individually, unless other people think differently

 

One that hasnt yet been demolished in the Black Country although the council are doing sod all to restore it:

http://www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk/Stations/wolverhampton_low_level.php

 

Sounds like a good place.
Wouldn't it be great if more Heritage railways did such a thing with a 'heritage village' at one of their stations, ie Ropley on the MHR. If they took over the field by the station they could rebuild old buildings, liek a pub, garage, shops, houses etc, and have a cobbled steets, and classic vehicals in the streets, a bit like Crich tramway museum in derbyshire.
LSWR

 

I think these days it is hard enough concentrating on one task, such as running a railway OR an "open air" museum. Both can be considered as major projects.

A railway probably wouldn't have the acreage for extra buildings, and museums don't have the length of run for a railway.

Going off at a slight tangent, there is also the Blists Hill Victorian Town at Ironbridge, with a few items of steam interest, which can be seen here:-

http://www.sharpos-world.co.uk/mainindx ... st2004.htm

The Ironbridge Gorge Museums website is at:-

http://www.ironbridge.org.uk/index.asp

(I don't want to be a pain, keeping on sticking links on these pages, but if you don't know what is out there to see, you won't go visiting the places!)

 

Pity it can't be dismantled and rebuilt at say Ruddington.

 

Sharpo, i've just added your site (Sharpos-world) to my favourites. Its a great website! :wink: