Welcome to the Model Trams and Tramways website, which was designed and built by Gordon Bulmer with additional material and photographs by other authors. It describes the tramway modelling of Gordon and Margaret Bulmer, Peter Rose and George Wilkinson who live in the North East of England. It includes the large scale model trams built by the late Gordon Douglas who was one of the first tramway modellers in the area.

The site also includes other items of interest to tramway modellers, such as automatic tram stops, motorising diecast trams, building 7mm scale trams and 'Your Questions Answered'. All the model tramways were built for exhibition, so if you wish to see us, or our model tramways, please consult the Where to see Us page for details of our future exhibition appearances.

The photographs above are in the following order from Foxwood Park, Gordon Douglas, Sealane, Sunderland Corporation, Sunderland District and Wearmouth. They are followed by another six in the same order to give twelve photographs in all. These twelve photographs are repeated as long as the page is viewed.

A simple automatic control system which enables a tram, wired for live overhead or 2-rail, to stop for a short time and then move off as the next tram approaches. This system does not use any electronics, but instead it uses cuts in the rails. Click here or follow the menus for descriptions and diagrams.

Click here or follow the menus for a full description, track plan, exhibition diary, photo and video galleries for each of the seven model tramways featured. There are construction blogs for 'Foxwood Park' and 'Ravenscar Pier' and a system history for both 'Sunderland Corporation' and 'Sunderland District' Tramways.

See how to motorise a Corgi 4-wheel, OOC Balloon and Railcoach, OOC Feltham, or EFE Horsfield tram. Click on one of the links or follow the menus for full descriptions and photographs.

Our thanks for their invaluable assistance during the research, design, construction and exhibition of our model tramways, and the building of this website must go, in alphabetical order, to Dave Allinson, Mark Bliss, the late Bill Davison, Malcolm Fraser, Alan Kirkman, Peter Rose, George Wilkinson and anyone else who has helped us in any way.