Category Archives: Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust

The Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust have come up with a rather bizarre new scheme in their latest attempt to safeguard the futures of their collection of historic Blackpool trams. Following previous projects involving trams being painted in novel liveries, attention … Continue reading →

The Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust have recently given their official website a welcome refresh, with updated profiles on all of the trams in their collection, including their most recent acquisition – Blackpool Centenary car 643. This includes the news that … Continue reading →

The Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust have used their newly revamped website to announce details of their latest project to create a new static display tram, utilising Blackpool Balloon car 726. This tram is one of several which is currently in … Continue reading →

Following the surprise departure of Blackpool Centenary car 643 from Broadwater Caravan Park on 28th February, it has been confirmed that the tram has been donated to the Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust. The tram has been relocated to Fleetwood fish … Continue reading →

A small update on the current situation regarding the Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust and its collection of historic Blackpool trams has recently appeared on the website of Rigby Road Publishing, a small venture run by one of the FHLT Trustees. This states … Continue reading →

To help fund the recent move of Blackpool Jubilee 761 from an open yard in Fleetwood to secure covered accommodation at Blackpool Transport’s Rigby Road Depot a Photo CD has been prepared showing the move of the tram along with … Continue reading →

John Woodman of the Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust has been critical of Fleetwood Town Council following their refusing to offer funding to support his plans to develop a new tram museum in the town. Although local Councillors have supported the project in principle, … Continue reading →

The Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust have managed to recover some of the tram rail which has recently been cleared from the former Blundell Street depot in Blackpool and it is planned that this will be used at the new Fleetwood Tram … Continue reading →

As reported over the past couple of days a large proportion of the trams of the Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust have been moved the short distance to new outside storage ahead of a final move to the new Fleetwood Tram … Continue reading →

Following on from the previously reported moves of two of the trams owned by the Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust to a new storage site in Fleetwood, two more of the collection were moved by Scott’s Heavy Haulage on Wednesday 3rd … Continue reading →

Following recent reports that the trams owned by the Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust stored in an industrial yard on the outskirts of Fleetwood would be moving to a new storage site, the task of moving the trams commenced on Tuesday … Continue reading →

The transformation of Blackpool Brush Railcoach 290 from the Diamond Jubilee tram into a piece of graffiti art for Blackpool’s Sea, Sand & Spray festival has now commenced. As reported previously, urban street artist Inkie is decorating the tram, owned … Continue reading →

The Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust’s preserved Blackpool Brush Railcoach 290 (or 627 as some still prefer to call it) has stood on a special display siding adjacent to the Pleasure Beach loop at Blackpool since August 2012, looking increasingly shabby … Continue reading →

We have recently carried some stories on future plans of the Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust taken from information supplied on their website (http://www.visitfleetwood.co.uk). Some of these stories have caused confusion amongst some of you and we have been contacted by … Continue reading →

The Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust have been exceptionally busy of late, making plans for the future of its collection of Blackpool trams. Whilst many of these plans involve the Trust’s ultimate aim of creating a new transport museum in Fleetwood, … Continue reading →

The Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust have announced that its preserved Blackpool Brush Railcoach 290, which was repainted as a static feature for the 2012 illuminations season, will be remaining on display in its current location throughout 2013. However, the tram … Continue reading →