{"id":49380,"date":"2023-06-11T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49380"},"modified":"2023-06-11T08:37:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T07:37:23","slug":"in-pictures-a-look-around-blackpools-tramtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49380","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: A look around Blackpool\u2019s Tramtown"},"content":{"rendered":"

The behind the scenes tours of Tramtown \u2013 Blackpool Transport\u2019s Rigby Road Depot \u2013 remain popular with the twice weekly tours seeing plenty of booking to get the chance to see what is going on at the historic facility. Members of the Fylde Tramway Society were treated to an extra tour on Friday 28th<\/sup> April when they got their own chance to see many trams which have been stored for a number of years. Stuart Cooke was one of those who enjoyed the opportunity to take a look.<\/p>\n

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The right hand tram is English Electric Railcoach 279. Owned by the Fylde Transport Trust the tram is midway through restoration with the work having previously been undertaken by the FTT with it being transferred to Rigby Road last year ahead of more working due to take place. Alongside is Balloon 701, currently stored.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Another FTT tram is Coronation 304 which is now on the way towards returning to service.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Balloon 713 waits outside the depot for its hire by the FTS.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Twin Car 272+T2 hasn\u2019t run since the motor suffered a fire in September 2016 and are now stored in the tram shed. Next to the Twin Set here is Works Brush 259 \u2013 another FTT owned car.<\/p><\/div>\n

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We\u2019re just being nosey here\u2026 Trams nose to nose in the depot. Left hand side is Brush 631 and the Frigate with the right featuring Balloon 717 and Boat 227. The Trawler is just at the back of the photo.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Balloon 710 (\u201cThe Alan Bradley Tram\u201d) sits at the front of the depot having arrived back at Rigby Road in February. Behind is Balloon 703 in its guise as Sunderland 101. Twin Car T2+272 is on the left with Coronation 660 at the very back. (All Photographs by Stuart Cooke, 28th April 2023)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The behind the scenes tours of Tramtown \u2013 Blackpool Transport\u2019s Rigby Road Depot \u2013 remain popular with the twice weekly tours seeing plenty of booking to get the chance to see what is going on at the historic facility. Members … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49388,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49380\/revisions\/49388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}