Advantages: Lots to do and see Disadvantages: A little out of the way
I have been visiting the East Anglian Transport Museum for about four or five years. I have been really impressed about it.
Let's start with the running details. As the name implies, this is a museum of transport of years gone by. There are trams and trolleybuses and old steam rollers. There is also a narrow gauge railway. The main street is being created as in the period adding a true touch of nostalgia.
Trams:- These are the noisy things that ... ...The East Anglia Transport Museum is situated three miles south of Lowestoft. (on the B1384) In North Suffolk. It is listed on the brown signs that show museums and places of interest.
The nearest station is Lowestoft, with connections to Ipswich and Norwich and beyond.
It is just off the A146 Norwich to Lowestoft main road and and about two and a half miles off the main A12 London to Great Yarmouth trunk road. There is a car park most days, but ...
paisleyman 27.04.2006 (27.05.2006)
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Advantages: More there than 1st impressions would indicate Disadvantages: Strictly open air - weather permitting!
...September 2006, I visited the East Anglian Transport Museum at Carlton Colville, just outside Lowestoft.
I'll get the 'how I got there' bits out of the way first, never to darken this opinion again.
I travelled from London King's Cross on a charter train known as the 'Blue Pullman' - a train of First Class coaches and two kitchen cars, refurbished to look like the so-called 'Blue Pullmans' of the 1960s. The actual prototypes (Bristol Pullman, Midland ... ...made dining such an 'exciting' affair, so it is with some relief that I can report that this aspect of 60s travel hasn't been replicated, and not once did I have to say 'Waiter, there's a soup in my flies'.
The charter was arranged by Hertfordshire Railtours, and cost around £90 per person, including the full English breakfast (and I do mean full!) and four-course dinner on the way back, leaving you with only your drinks bill to settle before getting ...
BNibbles 10.09.2006
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