Inside Story: Toone’s tram trip

Digital camera operator Holly has rigged up a few GoPros within the driver’s cab and that’s the place we’re headed. This can be a closed line, so I’m the one passenger, because the others head to the cramped confines of the ‘cockpit’.

“Correct bucket record this!” exclaims Ella, as Cheryl provides her a whistlestop lesson in taking the reins of this 39.7-tonne behemoth. “I really feel like I’m on my driving take a look at once more!”

These automobiles can attain speeds of as much as 50 miles per hour, based on Cheryl, however even with no different trams to fret about, we’re restricted to 10 per cent of this.

I’m too far again to see the exact mechanics of beginning the engine and setting off, however though there appear to be a whole lot of buttons in numerous colors, our trainee tram driver is outwardly a pure.

“There’s really much less to be taught than once you begin in a automotive,” she says, as Cheryl reminds her that, to be truthful, actual employees do must undertake weeks of studying in a classroom earlier than they’re even allowed entry to the keys.