There were quite a lot of steam tramways. Round your way, Birmingham had several steam tram companies, and they were found in other towns round there. Wolverhampton went straight from horses to electricity, though. Wikipedia has a useful "List of town tramway systems in the United Kingdom".

I didn't see any information about that. I would imagine its speed would depend on what it's dredging.

You'll need to let me know when that is, with plenty of warning. It sounds fabulous, but getting there from Scotland needs some planning.

Hope that DB don't do the usual, and that her travel around Germany is smooth. I should be back in Stuttgart in October, and plan to make use of a wee book I bought last time of transport history and industrial heritage walks.

One day...

There were some great beer places on the route, but most of them seemed to close on Tuesdays, which is when I chose to do it.

Try and schedule your visit for when the tram museum is running heritage trams. You get a good long ride with great views. And there's a lovely woodland walk between the top of the funicular and the rack railway, if that's your thing.

It's fairly easy to get to, and is part of the local public transport system, so a local day ticket or a Deutschlandticket is valid. The ongoing saga at Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof is still ongoing, but causing less chaos than I feared. Stuttgart has a lot of interesting railed transport - there's still one more video in this series to come on the tram museum and heritage tram rides.

The previous trams on this route had a smaller version of the same, too.

I loved all the wood, contrasting with the Art Deco buildings, and the peacefulness of it all.

I saw that it had been moved there, but it didn't seem like there was enough time for them to do it in-between filming and reading.

I like an occasional artsy angle, tbh, but used sparingly.

I look forward to seeing them.

Clearly needs to go on the bucket list! I noticed yesterday that the Summerlee Industrial Museum near Glasgow is having a steam weekend the same weekend as the Worldcon, and am investigating public transport options to get there (and hoping my two "real steampunk" programme items don't clash).

Me? Dance? Before the pubs have opened?

You just know that's how it would be described on Fix My Street. And the council would get the bleme.

The gate was left unlocked a few years back and a couple of friends went in and took lots of photos. Alas, the one with the camera is no longer with us, but I enjoyed his accounts of the adventure. I was out of town at the time, otherwise I'd have been there too.

Thank you. That tunnel's somethng I want to do some time, though I hadn't realised there was other things to do there other than go through it at speed!

The spa day in Spa was one of two bucket list items I did on this trip. It was wonderful. I think you'll like the other thing too.

So each track has its own counterweight, which runs on an under track?

@@BillRicker Yes, that's right.

If she goes, there's a tram museum only open at weekends, maybe only Sunday, that's interesting. There's also a preserved railway, but I've not managed to be there at the right time for that. And the national museum is a good use of time too, though there's no transport stuff there. The building is impressive - they dug down a long way to make it.

I went at a non-busy time. At rush hour it's apparently stowed out.

Whether intentional or not, some of the exposures made for a fetching water color effect! Vicariously vision all these nice trains and trams through your perambulations remains delightful. 😊

Had I spotted any, they'd have had a starring role.

Seems to be a regular thing.

I have a couple of photos from that day that, if I converted them to black and white, you'd never know they were recent. The plush compartment was definitely plusher than I remember, and it was interesting to compare it to the ÖBB 80s executive chic compartment I got to ride in recently. Both luxurious, but very different aesthetics.

Thank you. It really was serendipitous - I had no idea any of this was going on until I got there.

Thank you, too. Stuttgart is a bit of a transport nerdvana, and I am not staring at the great pile of footage I took.

lol it looked like fun.@@FeoragForsyth

It was great to be able to capture it, and on such a lovely day too.

Cool story. I'm interested to hear more about the hotel tunnels because a late friend mentioned their existence (but also a lift, which couldn't have gone where he claimed unless it was a Great Glass Elevator). He did manage to get into the Scotland Street Tunnel though, and took photos of wartime stuff - not a shelter, but some kind of control centre apparently. Alas, by the time I was working on this video, the brain tumour was busy taking away his memories including his memory of having taken all the photos he'd showed me 😞

@@FeoragForsyth I worked there part time in the late 70s then again in the mid 80s. The hotel extends almost as far below Princes Street as it rises above it. Myriad rooms, corridors, tunnels. It was a rabbit warren. Whether it’s still like that I don’t know. It was built as a railway hotel and was still under BR’s ownership during the times I worked there. Many of the underground rooms I saw were filled with discarded hotel furniture and fixtures. There were two huge whisky blending vats, big boilers that fed steam out into the steam locomotives. Then there were doors that led through into tunnels and supporting arches beyond the hotel boundaries. Heaven knows why. The architect was W. Hamilton Beattie who died before the hotel was completed. He also designed the Royal British Hotel and the Jenners building.

@@FeoragForsyth on reading your reply again and engaging my brain I realise that the lift to which your friend referred was most likely the one in the Waverley station that took train passengers up to the hotel (and vice versa). When you exited the booking hall and turned right there were doors immediately to your right which took you into a small lobby. Inside was a lift which went up just one level. You came out, turned right and trundled over the railway lines, down a series of corridors then took another lift which came up in the hotel foyer. It’s long gone. I suppose not many hotel guests arrive by train and those that do are expected to give themselves a heart attack going up the Waverley steps. Someone told me there’s now an escalator. I don’t live in Edinburgh now, it’s too much of a all year round tourist town, with no real shops.

@@markshrimpton3138 - that'll be the one. There are now escalators, and plenty of lifts, though the escalators have a habit of not working.

@@markshrimpton3138same at royal terrace hotel you cld go from there underground to the old parliament building just up the road as you say there was also bricked up tunnel ways ,

Cool. I remember it being easier to get into when I first moved here, but I never got round to it.