Preston Trampower acquires listed building for new headquarters

Preston Trampower, the project hoping to bring tram travel back to the city, has acquired Station House which will become the base of its operations.

The listed property is on  Gamull Lane and is a former station master’s house and booking office alongside the old Preston and Longridge railway line.

A contractor is currently on site and the building will undergo significant internal refurbishment as well as external landscaping over the coming weeks.

The acquisition is the latest step in making Preston Trampower's £25m vision a reality. The company also hopes to start work on a 200-metre demonstrator line in Deepdale this summer in advance of constructing the Guild Line which would feature 12 stops and run from the M6 at Red Scar into the city’s University Quarter.

Lincoln Shields, director of Preston Trampower, said: "We have been looking for a permanent HQ for some time. As we will be bringing parts of the former Preston and Longridge railway back into use as a sustainable tramway, we couldn’t have wished for a more fitting building than Station House.

"It gives us a presence in the very community where we are looking to bring forward the Guild Line and we look forward to the day where this building will once again see passengers going by its windows."

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