TRAM: British and Australian (American usually streetcar also trolley) noun [C] An electric vehicle that transports people, usually in cities, and goes along metal tracks in the road. (Taken from the Cambridge English Dictionary)
GALLERY 5: Engineering Trams & Vehicles This page was last updated on Sunday 10 October 2004
1 2 3 All Photographs in this Gallery were taken by Gareth Prior
Currently in all green livery the Blackpool Electric Locomotive was built in 1927 to haul coal wagons from Fleetwood to the sidings at Thornton Gate. After this work ended in 1949 the loco was used on a limited basis and is now preserved at the Crich Tramway Village where this picture was taken on 22 September 2000.
259 still has many of the original features of the Brush Railcoaches and is now in spasmodic use towing the rail crane 260 and also as a workman transporter and is owned by Blackpool Borough Council. The tram was captured at the depot at a display of mainly works tram during the Tramroad Centenary of 1998.
Two more members of the Blackpool Tramway Permanent Way fleet with 1928 built Railgrinder 752 in front and the Tower Wagon 749 returning to depot after the same event as 259 in the previous photo. 749 is now at the North of England Open Air Museum at Beamish.
Again at the works event the main engineering car 754 is pushing the Reel Wagon 750 into depot.
