Professor Lewis Lesley. They're still at it, like some ongoing Dr Strangelove movie plot:

http://www.blogpreston.co.uk/2017/10/why-this-bendy-bus-was-in-fishergate/ http://www.blogpreston.co.uk/2017/10/why-this-bendy-bus-was-in-fishergate/

An articulated bus has a smaller turning radius than a typical modern articulated tram. Good luck with that experiment. Look at that typical pommie bus - just two doors in 18 metres. And we get our bus "expertise" from there.

You can buy shares in Trampower. Here's a chance to invest your money in your beliefs:

http://www.trampower.co.uk/resource/Preston%20Share%20Offer.pdf http://www.trampower.co.uk/resource/Preston%20Share%20Offer.pdf

Tony P

---InTramsDownUnder@..., <matthew@...> wrote :

On 12/01/18 06:24, mcloughlin.dj@... mailto:mcloughlin.dj@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
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> Remember Trampower? It was an obscure organisation (given public
> support in Light Rail Transit Association literature) which built a
> lightweight "tram" that was trialled at Wirral and then Blackpool
> (where it caught fire) a decade ago. It even tendered its vehicle for
> the new Toronto fleet!
>
> Well, it has turned up again, and proposes to run that very same tram
> (!) on a line in Preston UK, presumably as either the 11 or the 86.
They never went away - the company has been humming along quietky in
Preston UK for some time. Trampower is a bit like the Parry People Mover
and just won't die.
I don't know how the guy manages to get operating funds given they don't
appear to have sold anything.

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> Is Trampower just some person's fantasy? The website doesn't even say
> who is behind it. If this hadn't been floating about for 20 years, I'd
> say it was a scam, but I tend to the fantasy given the longevity.
>
Some UK academic, who's name I can't find at this point.

> https://www.globalrailnews.com/2018/01/11/contractor-appointed-to-build-prestons-pilot-tram-line/ https://www.globalrailnews.com/2018/01/11/contractor-appointed-to-build-prestons-pilot-tram-line/
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> http://www.trampower.co.uk/index.html http://www.trampower.co.uk/index.html
>
> Pardon my skepticism but I do not think it unwarranted here.
>
Well they did put in their first planning application to build a pilot
line in Preston back in 2012.... Every couple of years they resubmit it
with slight changes.


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> david mcloughlin, Wellington no more
> "Holy writ requires unholy scrutiny."
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