While work on the installation of overhead along the route of the tramway extension in Blackpool along Talbot Road may have stalled after a week of span wires being put up that doesn’t mean that there is no work taking place as there remains activity up at the former Wilko’s store where the tram terminus will eventually be constructed.
While from first appearances in this photos there doesn’t seem to have been much change if you take a look in the site you will see that items have started to arrive which will be used to enable the laying of tracks. Steconfer track frames have now been delivered onto site which is hopefully a sign that in the not too distant future tracklaying will commence.
I loved the photos showing the new tramline almost up to the doors of the Wilko store, whereas in the 1940’s and fifties new buildings would threaten tramways.