TRAMVIES DE GRATALLOPS
This is the Gratallops tramway site
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We think that is very unusual to see an electric tramway in a village of about 220 people. Further more, when the tram is a private one, indoors (in an old withdrawn cellar) and running on a 10 meters track, then becomes a rarity.
The Gratallops tramway was, first of all, a personal caprice. We could define it as a toy for adults. Nevertheless, it has been built carefully, trying to give it a very real look. It is not a copy of any other tramcar, but it has been drawn in the aesthetics of some continental tramcars of the forties. The Gratallops tramway is built with some parts of old tramcars which, many years ago, ran in Barcelona tram system. Projected in 1997, entered in service in august 1998. Now, the tramway is a demonstration car having in mind the creation of a tourist tramway in the village.
Come and get on the Gratallops tramway! The trip is not a long one. It is only a walk in the past.
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The tramway was projected in the summer of 1997 and entered in service
a year later in a withdrawn cellar,
where you can still see a wine press.
In 1999 a little wagon was added to the fleet. 'TRAMVIES DE GRATALLOPS',
a ficticious 'company', run the
service.
The
little museum
Around the tramway a little exhibit has been constituted, from a private collection, on tramway subjects. In this space of about 100 m2 we are offering more than 50 pictures as well some items and scale models in display. The exhibit now remembers the centenary of the first barcelona buses, the 80 years of the 500-class tramcars, 65 years of the first trolleybus service, 45 from the arrival of secondhand PCC cars and the closure of the first tramway system. You can see also some pannels about the transport in the cities of Tarragona, Reus, Tortosa and the Priorat county. In the future we'll offer to researchers archives from tramway companies, drawings, tickets and more than 9000 photographs. By now, projects about Barcelona system from 1864 are available as well the relationship between the companies and the City Council and some about Tarragona tramway.
We also publish Gratallopstram, a quarterly magazine in A5 (28-32 pages) and catalan language, consecrated to museums, heritage lines as well historical topics about lines, tramcars and companies. It offers also information about the activities of TRAMVIES DE GRATALLOPS.
Last issue features:
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Special: the Reforma trams |
Back numbers available:
38(4.04), 45(10.05), 46(1.06),
47(4.06), 48 (7.06), 49 (10.06), 51 (4.07), 53 (10.07), 55 (4.08), 56 (7.08),
57(10.08), 58 (1.09)
OPEN DAYS
Tramway and exhibit opens on school
holydays as well one weekend every month at least. PLEASE, send us an e-mail
to check it.
TRAM
& MUSEUM is open usually from:
12.00 - 14.00 & 16.30 - 18.30.
Ask for other possibilities
Where is Gratallops?
In the middle of the comarca del Priorat, a very old wine region in the south of Catalonia. From Tarragona, nearby the Costa Dorada ressort area, follow the main road N-420 to Falset and, from there, the secondary road T-710 to Gratallops for an amount of 55 km. Further informations about the country can be obtained clicking on the Centre d'Estudis Falsetanslogo.
Do you know Gratallops?
(in english, french and german)
Further information?
(in english, catalan and spanish)
Where is the tramway?
Go to Saperes st. nº 15. If closed, go to the nearby
plaça de Dalt nº 4 and ask for.When can it be visited?
The little museum and the tramway can be visited on weekends and
most of the school holydays period. Check it in the open days section
Further information
- for Gratallops tramway, please use e-mail :
- you can visit also other sites of interest for you like narrow gauge transport systems :
Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya
Associations and little steam trains
News and systems, museums, etc around the world
and don't forget the little narrow gauge steam railway in La Vilella Baixa, 4km far away
Gallery
TRAMVIES DE GRATALLOPS by Albert Gonzàlez.
