Category Archives: Whatever Happened To?

Whatever Happened To? Blackpool Twin Car 675+685

The second of the Twin Cars to run on the final weekend was 675+685.

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Whatever Happened To? Blackpool Twin Car 672+682

We now move on to the Twin Cars, with two examples of this class seeing use over the final weekend.

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Whatever Happened To? Blackpool Centenary 648

We reach the end of the list of Centenary Cars which ran on the last weekend of the traditional Blackpool Tramway today – 648.

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Whatever Happened To? Blackpool Centenary 647

Once again we take a look a tram which ran over the last weekend of the traditional operation of the Blackpool Tramway with another Centenary Car the feature today.

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Whatever Happened To? Blackpool Centenary 646

Of all the trams which featured in service over the final weekend of traditional tramway in Blackpool, just one has been subsequently scrapped and it that tram that we feature today.

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Whatever Happened To? Blackpool Centenary 645

In this edition of the series where we look what happened to the tram which ran on the last weekend of the traditional Blackpool Tramway we take a look at another of the Centenary Cars.

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Whatever Happened To? Blackpool Centenary 644

Its time to take another look at one of the trams that ran on the final weekend of traditional operation on the Blackpool Tramway with another of the Centenary Cars featuring.

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Whatever Happened To? Blackpool Centenary 643

The next tram we take a look at that appeared over the final weekend of traditional tramway operation in Blackpool is the first to longer be on the Blackpool Tramway.

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Whatever Happened To? Blackpool Centenary 642

We now reach the Centenary Cars as we continue our look at those trams which ran on the last weekend of the pre-upgrade of the Blackpool Tramway in November 2011.

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Whatever Happened To? Blackpool Brush 632

The second of two Brush Cars to run over that last weekend of traditional tram operation was 632, a tram which hasn’t been as lucky as the others we have featured so far in this series.

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Whatever Happened To? Blackpool Brush 631

Today we take a look at one of the two Brush Cars to run over the last weekend of the traditional Blackpool Tramway – 631.

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Whatever Happened To? Blackpool Boat 600

The next tram we take a look at that ran over the final weekend of the traditional Blackpool Tramway in November 2011 is Boat 600, which was the only one of the Open Boat Cars to run during the weekend.

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Whatever Happened To? Blackpool Standard 147

Over the final weekend of the traditional Blackpool Tramway on 5th and 6th November 2011 29 different trams (or 32 if you take the trailers of the Twin Cars and Western Train to be separate trams) operated in service, either … Continue reading

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