| Blackpool Trams in B/W - Early 1980s |
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Blackpool's open air trams date from 1934 and are the oldest public service vehicles still in permanent regular service - as opposed to running in a museum or on loan from one.
They are known as "Boats" due to the pointy bit at the end resembling the... er... pointy bit on the front of boats...
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Left: Twin-Car 680 operating as a single. In fact car 680 acts as a single so often I suspect it has serious relationship problems with its trailer...
Right: the same Twin Car passes a Blackpool-built "Coffin" one man car at South
Shore Baths. |
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Left: Tigerrific! A Brush Railcoach carries an early advert for the Zoo in the late 1970s. Many trams now carry advertisements for both local attractions and nationally known products.
Right: Brush Car 627 at Talbot Square. |
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A one-man tram and a Brush car on driver-training duties in front of the Lewis's store next door to the Tower.
Woolworths' store currently stands on the site - a fairly plain brick facade having taken the place of the 1960s honeycomb frontage of the earlier store. |
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Left: Twin Car Trailer
Right: Princess Street. It was along these tracks that the first electric tram ever to run on
street tracks made its way, 1885 |
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Left: a 1981 photograph of the Blackpool-built one-man double decked tram.
Right: a one-man tram and a Brush car by the Manchester Hotel. This is the nearest
point to the Rigby Road tram depot and cars often stop here whilst drivers change at the start
and end of a shift. |
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Left: the Bolton Corporation tram at South Shore, 1981.
Right: one of the more barmy ideas! In 1982 this tram had a counter for selling stamps! |
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