{"id":15962,"date":"2016-12-08T20:11:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T20:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=15962"},"modified":"2016-12-08T20:11:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T20:11:37","slug":"in-pictures-unusual-moves-in-blackpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=15962","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Unusual moves in Blackpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winter in Blackpool traditionally means work on the\u00a0infrastructure, and this has been true so far of winter 2016\/17. Some track repair works on Monday 5th December meant that, for a few hours, single-line working was enforced between North Pier and Cabin. Although only the modern LRT trams were in service that day this still presented some novel riding and photographic opportunities.<\/p>\n

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Passengers were asked to board trams at Pleasant Street, Wilton Parade, Gynn Square and Cliffs Hotel stops from the northbound platform, as the southbound line was closed whilst under attention. This meant that passengers could ride a service tram over the crossovers at North Pier and Cabin – not so unusual on a heritage car, but extremely unusual on a Flexity!<\/p>\n

Prominent notices were posted on board trams and at waiting shelters, with information also provided on Blackpool Transport’s website and online social media. Unfortunately, the disruption seemed much worse than expected; warnings of delays up to ten minutes proved to be somewhat optimistic, with reports stating that some journeys ended up being about an hour late! It is not clear why trams were delayed so heavily due to what should have been a fairly straightforward operation. Thankfully the closure was only for part of the day and by mid-afternoon, a normal full service using both tracks had resumed.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Rob Bray for capturing a number of unusual images from this day, showing some of the moves made by the Flexity trams as a result of the single line running, which are reproduced below.<\/p>\n

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