Revealed: plans to bring trams back to Brighton

Thursday 12th November 2026 OK, I admit it, the headline is clickbait, but the meaning is factually correct – it’s just not what you might first assume. It’s about two trams, and one in particular, and a proposal to bring them both back home to Brighton and carry passengers once again. The tram concerned is Brighton Corporation Tramways number 53 which first entered passenger service in 1937 and for the last 16 years has been undergoing restoration towards its original condition. That work, which began in 2010, has been lovingly and painstakingly carried out by a dedicated team of volunteers working in cramped conditions in a shed belonging to a farmer in Wiston, near Stenning, West Sussex. That’s where the tram was taken thirty years earlier in 1980 from another farm in Ashurst where it had sat exposed in a field for almost 40 years after being sold not long following its withdrawn from service when Brighton lost its trams in 1939. Readers will immediately realise from that brief…

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