Before we move on “Picture in Time” returns to the Gateshead Garden Festival one last time.
Today we feature the much travelled Blackpool 167 once again. Having run in Blackpool before preservation at Crich it has since run at the Gateshead Garden Festival as well as spells on loan back in Blackpool and also at Beamish.
This photo shows one of the road trains that ran all the way through from Riverside down to Norwood passing the depot at the north end of the tramway. 167 waits outside, while the short passing loop can be clearly seen.
And then under grey skies Blackpool 167 pulls away from the northern tramway terminus. Newcastle 102 can just be discerned inside the depot. The houses in the background are on the opposite (north) bank of the Tyne.
Both Photographs by Donald Brooks, July 1990