The location for today’s edition of “Trams &” is the Blackpool Tramway as we head to the northern outpost of the system at Fleetwood to see one of the modern Flexity2 trams alongside one of Blackpool Transport’s buses.
There are various locations on tramways across the UK where you are almost guaranteed to be able to capture images of trams with, ordinarily, a bus to allow us to include them in this series. On the Blackpool Tramway one such location is the Fleetwood Ferry terminus on Bold Street which has a handy interchange available between the two forms of transport. And that is where this photo is taken on 2nd June 2016.
The single track tram terminus – situated on a loop which runs along North Albert Street, Bold Street, Fleetwood Esplanade and Pharos Street – is occupied by Flexity2 003 in this shot. This is one of two trams in the Blackpool fleet at this time to carry a full vinyl wrap livery for Pretty Little Thing and with a bright pink colour it certainly stands out from the crowd!
On the left hand side it is joined by one of Blackpool Transport’s ADL Enviro400 City buses. Numbered 455 in the fleet – and with the registration number SN67 WZW – this bus is in the Palladium livery now carried by the bus fleet. Its working on line 14 which the destination screen handily tells us will be departing from the stop in 4 minutes.
Photograph by Gareth Prior, 2nd June 2022