Love the Comeng train in The Met livery near the end of the video too. You’ve preserved a piece of history here.

Worked there for 22 years nearly in the electrical section it was a big learning curve to maintain all the trams

Terrific recording of tramway history! Thanks for posting.

Fantastic footage 👍👍👍

I liked that good to see inside Preston workshop years ago. I would say my fav parts were that model tram system you know I made an electric B1 class tram out of cardboard that goes on ho gauge track and seeing a non refurbished B class.

Used to pass the Preston Workshop quite a number of times during the week growing up. I would have been a young kid at the time u took this footage .

I did some work on the Preston workshop refurbishment a few years ago, would’ve been plenty of collectables walked out the doors no doubt. Great old buildings though.

This must be where the great Aussie film "Malcolm" was partly filmed. Also saw Harris trains on a bridge over a road on that too. Great film, thanks for the upload. We had trams here in Hastings, England, for a while, there was a powerhouse that generated 6.6KV AC which went to subs around the system where it was converted to 550V DC for the wires. We also had trolleybuses but it all went in favour of diesel buses. When they did up the road here to this day, in certain areas, you can see the old 3' 6" gauge tramlines. In a street near me there are still insulators on the buildings that once carried the overheads. Such a shame, but every UK city o r town bar Blackpool got rid of the tram. I often wonder how much Hastings would be different now if they'd kept them, people would've come to ride them as a novelty, though of course we'd probably have a fleet of newer vehicles for day to day use. They could've kept the "heritage trams" for the better weather and the tourists. As it is, we're a faded seaside resort full of illegal immigrants, chavs, and other scroungers, with a drugs problem.

Interesting n nostalgic

did you ever drive the white and black striped W2 maintenance trams

Very cool

Like it, noticed Z1.60 near the start & Z1.48 later on in the video... I believe both were used for spare parts and then scrapped? I like how you showed W2.533, a tram damaged in a fire. I find it funny that both 'it' & Comeng 533M were damaged in fires.

Very interesting video, we used to have workshops like that up until 5 or so years ago, they gave all the staff a very 'handsome' retirement incentive, and with the very few that didn't take it they have a struggle to maintain what's left - idiotic Council. It now costs them more to maintain the 'modern' ones, as all they can do is keep ordering parts from the makers as no-one knows how to repair them.