Daily Archives: Thursday 23 January 2020

In Pictures: Failed Flexity rescued at Fleetwood

Posted on Thursday 23 January 2020 by Gareth Prior

Blackpool’s Flexity2 trams are usually some of the most reliable trams in the UK with reports of complete failures pretty unusual. However, on 3rd January 2020, 013 was declared a failure at Fleetwood Ferry which not only required fitters attention … Continue reading →

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More tram v road vehicle incidents on Metrolink

Posted on Thursday 23 January 2020 by Gareth Prior

The past few days have seen further collisions between road vehicles and trams on Manchester Metrolink – both affecting the Ashton-under-Lyne line. The first incident happened on Saturday 18th January shortly before Manchester City kicked off their match against Crystal … Continue reading →

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Picture in Time: Blackpool Railcoach 678

Posted on Thursday 23 January 2020 by Gareth Prior

We move into the 1990s for this week’s Blackpool archive image as we take a look a look at one of three ex-Towing cars which was never permanently coupled to its trailer.

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