Around Europe and the world, there are several tramway systems that have an important cultural value. Among our members, there are both those who have their own infrastructure or who run on an infrastructure in an urban environment that is owned by someone else.
There is an active societal development with a need for well-functioning public transport. Unfortunately, it also creates a modern infrastructure that does not allow the mobile cultural heritage such as Tram to no longer be able to run in the cities. In Fedecrail, we see it as important that the combination of the new modern and the older heritage to be able to coexist or that the veteran trams can continue to be shown in city centers through its own infrastructure.
Around Europe and the world, there are several tramway systems that have an important cultural value. Among our members, there are both those who have their own infrastructure or who run on an infrastructure in an urban environment that is owned by someone else.
We also have the members with their own infrastructure that offers a museum, an experience-to-experience trams in different ways. To create opportunities to be able to network, exchange experiences and jointly create opportunities for material or understanding.
Tramway Group is still under construction, and we also see that we should not act as a competitor to other similar networks but work together to preserve the historic tramway operations.
To create a forum for sharing best practise by heritage tram operators & tram museums.
- To support initiatives to broaden the base of TG participants.
- To collect and collate information about heritage tram operators/tram museums
- To show by worked example the contribution of heritage tram to the local cultural and
- economic activities.
- To support business activities that diversify the appeal of trams to different demographic
- groups, especially young people.
- To support a programme of adoption of best practise by heritage tram operators & tram
- museums.
