The 1989 Festival Of Model Tramways

The Festival of Model Tramways, is the national and premier event for the model tram enthusiast.

The very first Festival was held on 6th/7th May 1989 at the Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Green Dragon Lane, Brentford, Greater London, TW8 0EN.

Here is a selection of publicity photographs taken by John Prentice at the time. Most are black and white because that was the publication requirement back then.

Keighley car in 1:32 by Ted Rowe


Birmingham tram and trailer in 1:16 by Peter Hammond


Liverpool cars in 0 gauge by David Orchard


Westport in 00 gauge by Don Pigott


Dob Sibley's continental H0 layout


London Transport M class car in 1:32 by Jim Rawlings


Carshalton & Sutton MRC's 0 gauge layout


Ron Howes's Garratt Green London layout in 00 gauge


2 foot gauge loco Lilla on the museum's railway


Parked outside was London United Busways' bus in the LUT tram livery
(seen here at another location a few months later)

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