A museum is offering a gift idea which is just the ticket for dads and their lads.

Staff at Beamish Museum in County Durham reckon there are plenty of men and boys who harbour a dream to be a tram conductor.

Now the museum is offering, for £35, a colour print of a Beamish trams and the chance to act as conductor for a trip around the tracks.

Its trams include the Sunderland Corporation Tramways 16, built in 1900, which ran on Wearside until 1954.

It survived by being used as a changing room on a football field and was later acquired by a farmer near Hexham who used it for 30 years as a tool shed and apple store.

It was taken to Beamish and a four-year restoration began.

All funds raised from the scheme go to maintain the trams and tramway for Beamish's 320,000 visitors a year.

Head of fundraising Anne Burton said: "The Beamish tramway is one of the most extensively used in the country, with over a million passenger journeys a year. … the trams are incredibly expensive to maintain and spare parts are not easy or cheap to find."

To Adopt a Beamish tram, call Anne Burton on (0191) 370-4021 or email anneburton@beamish.org.uk