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Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours - Enhanced Weekend September 2024

The last Enhanced Weekend of 2024 for Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours took place on the final weekend of September. As with previous Enhanced and Event Weekends this saw a "hop-on, hop-off timetable" in operation and on both days this included five trams in use, with the continued limited tram availability due to the situation at Rigby Road Depot.

This collection actually gets undwerway a couple of days before the events of the weekend with some images of Illumination Tours before we really get going with the "hop-on, hop-off timetable". We see all of the trams which ran on that timetable - which on the Saturday included the relatively unusual use of the Frigate during the daytime - and also feature Balloon 723 in use on "The Full System Tour" which took place on the Sunday and included a trip onto the North Station extension, becoming the first true heritage tram to carry passengers along Talbot Road since it opened.

* Some video of trams running over the weekend from Steven Hughes can be viewed on YouTube.

Photographer: Gareth Prior
Photographs were taken between Thursday 26th and Monday 30th September 2024.

Brush 631

Flexity2 007 & Brush 631

Balloon 723

Balloon 723 & Flexity2 017

Frigate

Bolton 66 & Balloon 723

Bolton 66, Balloon 700 & Brush 631

Balloon 700 & Balloon 723

Bolton 66

Frigate

Balloon 700

Balloon 700, Frigate & Western Train

Frigate

Frigate

Bolton 66

Balloon 718 & Brush 631

Boat 600, Balloon 718 & Brush 631

Boat 600 & Bolton 66

Brush 631, Boat 600 & Balloon 700

Brush 631 & Balloon 700

Balloon 718

Brush 631 & Bolton 66

Boat 600

Balloon 700

Balloon 723 & Flexity2 016

Balloon 700 & Flexity2 008

Western Train

Balloon 718 & Balloon 723

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This page was added on Sunday 13th October 2024

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