Today's Crich Tramway Village, also known as the National Tramway Museum, has a collection of trams built between 1873 and 1982, many of which are operational and ply the track from the southern terminus on the museum's main street out to the Glory Mine terminus and end of track, a distance of nearly a mile.

Following the end of the Second World War most tramways in the United Kingdom were in decline and closures were frequent. In 1948 a group of tram enthusiasts touring Southampton Tramways decided to buy one of that company's trams. Open top tram number 45 was purchased at the cost of £10 (About £280 in today's money or $426).

By 1955 this group of enthusiasts had evolved into the Tramway Museum Society eventually turning into an educational charity by 1963.

During 1959, on the hunt for a location for the society's trams, the group found the limestone quarry located at Crich. Members decided to lease a portion of the site and buildings. Over the following years a collection of trams were put together and restored. Equipment was acquired so that a working tramway with workshops could be constructed.

About 1965 it became apparent to the members that tramcars deserved to operate not in a quarry but to service a town or village so the concept of Crich Tramway Village was born. Today it appears to be a real period village, but all the structures were moved here from across England, then reassembled brick by brick over a number of years.

Currently the museum holds over 80 trams from places in the United Kingdom such as Blackpool, Chesterfield, Derby, Douglas, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Gateshead, Grimsby, Halle, Howth, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Newcastle, Paisley, Sheffield, and Southampton. Also, there are trams from Berlin Germany, The Haque Netherlands, Oporto Portugal, New York USA, Prague Czech Republic, Sydney Australia, and Johannesburg South Africa.

Check out their tram collection located on the museum's website.