East Anglian Transport Museum (Carlton Colville)

Being a transport enthusiast, I have visited many transport museums around the country, some I've liked a lot, some less so. I have a fair number on my doorstep as well, including some very successful and popular ones, yet I keep getting drawn half way across the country to the East Anglia Transport Museum. From the start, the EATM has something that makes it stand out from most other transport museums, it's not a stuffed and mounted, touch me not type of museum, it's a living, breathing, "hands on" (or perhaps more accurately, bums on) museum. It's also unique in being the only place in the UK where you can travel on Trams, Trolleybuses and a Railway. ...  Read the complete review

On Saturday 8th 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 Pullman etc) were not renown for their smooth ride, which must have made dining an ‘exciting’ affair, so it is with some relief that I can report that this aspect of 60s travel hasn’t ...  Read the complete review