Shipley Glen Tramway

Open Weekends and Bank Holiday afternoons and December weekends for Santa Specials.

Visit the newly opened museum featuring the history,photos and memorabilia of Shipley Glen Tramway and Shipley Glen from Victorian times to today. The tramway needs volunteers to sell tickets, to help in the tramway shop, to show visitors round the museum, to help with maintenance and even to train as tram driver. To volunteer call past the tramway any weekend and leave your contact details or call Richard Freeman 0777 300 1250 or send an e-mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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The Shipley Glen Cable Tramway is the oldest working cable tramway in Great Britain (cliff lifts excepted) and dates from 1895. The tramway has just had a new cable fitted to haul the trams at a cost of £3900. At the same time the top winding drum,dating back to 1895 and an original piece of tramway equipment, has had its worn out surface replaced by new steel sleeves costing £2600. The old winding drum surface gave 111 years of service.

A new west platform at the bottom station has been built at a cost of £3900 to replace an old and deteriorating wooden platform. The tramway volunteers have now replaced the old Santa's Grotto at the top station with a new and larger building and also making a better access and exit to Santa's Grotto for visitors.The building will be used to display the tramway's collection of memorabilia and photographs of the history of the Trollybus in Bradford. 

  Use the Historical Interest category of Baildon Maps to see the location of the tramway and to get directions. The Shipley Glen Tramway web site has details of public transport.

Operating Times 2006

January/Feb: Sunday Only 12.00 to 16.00
March:Saturday 12.00 to 16.00 Sunday 12.00 to 16.00
April:Saturday 12.00 to 17.00 Sunday 12.00 to 17.00
Easter
Good Friday 12.00 to 16.30 Easter Saturday 12.00 to 16.30
Easter Sunday 12.00 to 16.30 Easter Monday 12.00 to 16.30
May to October

Saturday 12.00 to 16.30
Sunday 12.00 to 16.30
Bank Holidays 12.00 to 16.30
November
Sundays Only 12.00 to 16.00