Really interesting, I live near Stourbridge where two Parry People Movers provide a shuttle service on the town branch line. Used to be a class 153 before the class 139 PPMs replaced it.

I was on the harbour side that day... 8 years old...I remember this fondly.

This tramway could have been a great tourist attraction for Weymouth. Just look at how popular the trams are in Lisbon - and the rails in the road there don't seem to cause problems with other road users. Such a lack of foresight on behalf of the council who seem to prefer clogging up the roads with cars and lorries and motorbikes rather than adopt a more environmentally friendly transport solution.

Excellent video! I am very interested in the weymouth tram way. Lived hear for a long time and all ways liked the fort of a tram running.

It's that much larger than a car, that it takes 3 traffic wardens to write it a ticket 😂

This is good solution for abandoned heavy rail lines or ex freight lines. Back in 1994 Swansea council looked into running them but putting the infrastructure back is prohibited. The best use of a Parry People Mover at the moment is the Stourbridge town to junction trains. So Weymouth quay would be good apart from mixing them with cars and bad parking of vehicles (including boats) means it's a bit of a no go. They should look at Burton on Trent to Leicester via Coalville.

About 50 years ago at a CIT meeting I suggested to the then Chief Inspecting Officer of Railways that SR emus should be retro fitted with flywheels to conserve energy. He rubbished the idea because of the risk of the flywheel disintegrating at speed and injuring people. Apparently it's OK now.

1990's equivalent to an HV jacket. A black leather!

A bit of track prep work wouldn't have gone a miss

So why were the tracks not cleaned out beforehand?

Parry and the Weymouth Line - two things that were never destined to survive.

59.9p for a litre of unleaded..........

Where were the people being moved by the perpetual motion machine?

Hmm, I expect its top speed was rather more than 2mph, but what was it? Also the flywheel sounded like it spun down rather readily just when manouevring back and forth a few tens of metres at low speed. Plus if the tram tracks are simply laid along normal roads, here, with all the typical issues of them getting filled up with debris, and they don't go off anywhere that a typical road vehicle can't, ie the tram never truly becomes a light rail vehicle running along narrow offroad alignments (like those of Wolverhampton/Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Croydon...), PLUS it's a dinky little thing like this which can't even hold as much as a regular single-decker bus (when most modern trams beat double-deckers for capacity)... ...I can't help thinking, what really is the point? Why not instead have a low speed, town centre shuttle minibus that uses the same flywheel technology instead? Just needs a slightly more sophisticated setup for charging at each stop, but after that it sees all the benefits that saw the old-world trams lose out to buses in the first place, as well as being zero emission and not having to bother with batteries... And it would probably be able to carry more people too. Probably weigh less and so go further on each boost-up to boot.

Shame this never worked out a lot of towns could do with tram networks save on pollution

Those wheels are too small

Sorry to say the council are ripping up the rails !!

goddam tracks, nearly wiped out on my little motorbike every day going to work in one of the charter fishing boats

An interesting video of another lost opportunity by another narrow and short minded council. Thanks for posting

For those with busy lives, you can skip the first five minutes and miss nothing of interest

No camera phones! Miss those times.

I don't see the point of running something like this on the line, then or now. As I see it, the only value the line could have now is as a heritage tourist thing. Imagine running top+tail steam tank engines and, say, four coaches in a back 'n' forth shuttle during the summer season. That's be a winner for the town, surely? Maybe there could be room for the occasional excursion from elsewhere, but a small steam tramway would be massively popular I suspect.

well that was 16 minutes of my life I will never get back

A solution looking for a problem!