Category Archives: Blackpool Tramway

Peak time travel pass restrictions lifted as more Coronavirus measures in place across the UK

Posted on Thursday 19 March 2020 by Gareth Prior

Since their introduction concessionary passes for use on buses and some trams have seen a limit on their use during morning peak times but in light of the current Coronavirus pandemic it has now been announced that this will be … Continue reading →

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Picture in Time: Blackpool Balloon 717

Posted on Thursday 19 March 2020 by Gareth Prior

Its off to Blackpool in 1984 again for today’s “Picture in Time” and in this instalment we are taking a look at another of the iconic Balloon cars.

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Balloon 707 returns to service in Blackpool

Posted on Monday 16 March 2020 by Gareth Prior

After the completion of work to bring it back into service Blackpool Balloon 707 returned to passenger service on Saturday 14th March – a late replacement for the Trawler in the pre-announced line-up of trams. This is the first confirmed … Continue reading →

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What’s New on British Trams Online?

Posted on Sunday 15 March 2020 by Gareth Prior

This week we have dipped into the archives for our Photo Gallery:

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In Preview: Blackpool Winter Gold, 14th and 15th March 2020

Posted on Friday 13 March 2020 by Gareth Prior

The second Winter Gold event of 2020 is due to take place this weekend, 14th and 15th March with the standard timetable in operation with six trams in action each day plus the Shop Tram running one service in the … Continue reading →

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Picture in Time: Blackpool OMO 4

Posted on Thursday 12 March 2020 by Gareth Prior

As last week we are featuring a Blackpool tram during 1984 in this edition of “Picture in Time”. This time it is one of the OMO cars.

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Brief update on FTT trams Standard 143 & Railcoach 279

Posted on Monday 9 March 2020 by Gareth Prior

The Fylde Transport Trust have given the latest update on the projects to return Standard 143 and Railcoach 279 to the rails with the latter continuing to take shape as a “pointed end” Railcoach once more.

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Picture in Time: Blackpool Brush 632

Posted on Thursday 5 March 2020 by Gareth Prior

Its Blackpool Thursday evening again as this week we head back into the 1980s for a view of a Brush Car in an all over advert.

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Picture in Time: Blackpool Twin Car 673+683

Posted on Thursday 27 February 2020 by Gareth Prior

We are off to Blackpool this evening this latest archive image and this time we find ourselves in 2001.

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Work on demolishing Wilkinson’s set to get underway in April

Posted on Thursday 20 February 2020 by Gareth Prior

It has been considered the blocker to the opening of the Blackpool North Railway Station tramway extension and it now appears that the Wilkinson’s store on Talbot Road will start to be demolished in April leading to the next stage … Continue reading →

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Picture in Time: Blackpool Balloon 701

Posted on Thursday 20 February 2020 by Gareth Prior

This week we feature another Balloon Car as we dip into the Blackpool archives once more with the time machine ending up some 20 years ago in the year 2000.

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Winter Gold weekend cancelled

Posted on Thursday 13 February 2020 by Gareth Prior

With more stormy weather forecast for this week Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours have taken the sensible decision to cancel the planned Winter Gold weekend. Storm Dennis is due to menace the UK with a severe weather warning in place for … Continue reading →

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Picture in Time: Blackpool Balloon 702

Posted on Thursday 13 February 2020 by Gareth Prior

After last week’s mystery – thanks to everyone who solved the conundrum of exactly the trams were in the photos! – we are on firmer ground regards the tram for this week’s archive Blackpool tram image!

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Storm Ciara causes disruption across UK

Posted on Tuesday 11 February 2020 by Gareth Prior

“Storm of the Century”, named Ciara in the alphabetical naming sequence used by the Met Office in recent years, has seen severe disruption for UK tramways with not only strong winds but heavy rain leading to service changes. Blackpool, Edinburgh, … Continue reading →

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Picture in Time: Busy times at Fleetwood Ferry

Posted on Thursday 6 February 2020 by Gareth Prior

We are heading back to Blackpool for today’s archive image as we feature not one, not two, not even three but four trams at Fleetwood Ferry.

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Progress made on restorations in Blackpool

Posted on Wednesday 5 February 2020 by Gareth Prior

This winter has already been a busy one at Rigby Road Depot’s heritage tram workshops with Boat 230, the Frigate and the Western Train all already seeing attention. In addition the major restoration of Balloon 704 is continuing and there … Continue reading →

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Picture in Time: Blackpool Brush 626

Posted on Thursday 30 January 2020 by Gareth Prior

This evening we are back in Blackpool for another instalment of “Picture in Time” and it’s the 1990s again.

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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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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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In Pictures: First Winter Gold of 2020

Posted on Monday 20 January 2020 by Gareth Prior

It may only be mere weeks since Christmas but the past weekend has seen the first “Gold weekend” of 2020 in Blackpool with six trams scheduled to run on each day with the new timetable seeing regular services running from … Continue reading →

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