Physical description

Set of 14 black and white photographs of the use of former sleeper transport car, W2 485 - see page 80 of Destination City 5th Edition for more details of the tram. Tram body being used to train emergency staff how to recover a tramcar that had been tipped over onto its side. DC5, notes it was stored at Preston workshops and later "used an instruction car to train emergency crews in the righting of the overturned trams. It was overturned several times in this role."



Note: - would have been at the time, probably the only way to do this, as mobile cranes were only just starting to be developed.



Truck is an AEC built Matador truck.



Possibly these photos who the first time used as such, as one of the life guards was being cut off in the photos.



1 - tram on its side

2 - ditto - showing underside of tram

3 - pulling one of the bogies clear.

4 - cutting away a lifeguard

5 - pulling the other bogie clear

6 - setting up the chains to recover the tram - note the sleepers it is lying on.

7 - ditto

8 - starting to lift the tramcar

9 - rolling the tramcar upright

10 - tram upright and being jacked up to roll the bogies back under

11 - pushing a bogie under

12 - ditto

13 - as for 9

14 - as for 10

15 - similar to 9