| Blackpool Tram Sheds 1981 |
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Left: the tracks down Lytham Road to the Promenade from the Rigby Road tram depot are one of only three remaining roadway tracks in Blackpool.
Right: the Rigby Road tram depot. Almost as interesting is the line of what would
now be called "classic" cars! |
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The Rigby Road Tram Depot. "Boat" tramcars, thought to be the oldest public service vehicles still in everyday use in England.
The one left had just returned from a spell in Philadelphia, USA, hence the unusual livery. |
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Left: a works car cobbled together from boxing in the sides of what looks to have started life as a Fleetwood Car.
Right: a Brush Car in the tram sheds. Blackpool has had a number of variants of this car, based on English Electric's Railcoach of 1934. |
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Two vintage tramcars, Dreadnought 159 (left) and the Bolton Corporation
tramcar (right). |
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This engineering car was one of the old Standard tramcars that plied the routes around town behind the promenade.
The cars were mostly broken up when the roadway tracks were taken up and the routes closed.
Two of these cars were used as illuminated tramcars in the 1950s and early 1960s. One of these
still exists at the East Anglia Transport Museum at Carlton Colville, near Lowestoft. |
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Above right: OUCH!
Left: the original depot on Blundell Road. Used as a workshop, it was demolished by the Town Council close to the Centenary of the first public tram service, despite calls for it to be turned into a museum. |
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Every year I keep promising myself that I'll go back to the tramsheds and take some colour photos! I'll try my best folks! |
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