It is most certainly awards season in the transport sector with two major ceremonies recently taking place. One of those with the National Transport Awards which as the name suggests covers all aspects of transport in the UK with one of the categories being “Tram Operator of the Year”.
This year Blackpool Transport were named winners in that category, beating off competition from the two previous winners of the category – Edinburgh Trams (2024) and West Midlands Metro (2023).
Commenting on LinkedIn, Jane Cole, Managing Director of Blackpool Transport, said: “The team have worked tirelessly this year to make the Blackpool Tramway and the extension to the train station a huge success. Thank you to all the employees who have contributed to this prestigious award of Tram Operator of the Year at the National Transport Awards.”
2025 has seen the core service on the Blackpool Transport enjoy enhancements with a much better timetable introduced earlier this year which means for most of the day trams depart from each end of the system every 10 minutes with every other tram going to North Station. This is a far cry from 2024 when a much maligned timetable was introduced for the opening of the extension.
And the timetable improvements haven’t ended there as during the Fireworks Championships a through service has been maintained instead of running a split service and whereas 2024 saw no trams to North Station after 1800 this has also been remedied.