Two new paintings both featuring the town of Ramsgate are now available as greeting cards and fine art prints:
- Fine Art Print > Thanet Trams passing the waterfall on Madeira Walk
- Fine Art Print > The Tunnel Railway
- Greeting Card > Thanet Trams passing the waterfall on Madeira Walk
- Greeting Card > The Tunnel Railway
Trams in Thanet ran from 1901 until 1937. The painting depicts the early days of the tram network with narrow-bodied car number 49, built by G.F. Milnes & Co. grinding its way uphill on the difficult gradient, whilst car 17, built by the St. Louis Car Company, carefully descends towards the Ramsgate Harbour stop.
The Tunnel Railway was a 2 ft narrow-gauge overhead electric railway. When opened in 1936 it was known as the World Scenic Railway.
The railway never had a timetable, and operated according to demand. Whenever one station had a sufficient number of passengers the driver telephone to the other station that he was about to depart, and the trains from both stations would set off simultaneously, passing at the halfway crossing loop. The journey took approximately seven minutes.
It closed at the end of the summer season in 1965.
