Gavin ShoebridgeJun 28
Here's the absolute weirdest electric vehicle you've ever seen.
It was called the Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway in the UK, and it's an elevated tram which ran on submerged (at high tide) tracks.
It started running in 1896 but was knocked out of action a week later by a storm. It was rebuilt and ran for 5 years, carrying thousands alongside the beach for no immediately obvious reason. 😄
It's long since gone but the fact it actually existed is surreal.
Show threadJamesAshburnerJun 28
@KiwiEV Ah, look, thanks all the same—but I’ll give that one a miss, if you don’t mind. Being a Melbourne schoolboy shivering in a draughty 1920s half-open tram was misery enough. Nothing personal, though!
Show threadSalem's Lot
@JamesAshburnerCBR @KiwiEV You are 110+ years old? No disrespect intended.
Jun 28 at 9:09amTusky
Show threadJamesAshburnerJun 28
@SalemsLot @KiwiEV Tram classes designed and built in the 1920s and 1930s. They had extremely long service lives—often with various updates, modifications, or rebuild-to-another class transformations.