Still Standing! Darwen Steam Tram turning circle

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The preserved steam tram turning triangle at Whitehall. The single-storey building with the mural is the Tramway Café, while the building behind is clearly recognisable from photographs of the same location in steam days well over one hundred years ago. The Blackburn and Over Darwen Tramways Company obtained steam tram locomotives from both Kitson and Thomas Green, with Kitson supplying six for the opening of the tramway in 1881. The locomotives with their double-deck trailers would have waited on the triangle before returning north.

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