Illumination interest is provided by Locomotion and Rocket which were part of the Rail 150 display designed by Alan Cockcroft and originally conceived in 1975 for the 150th<\/sup> anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway.<\/p>\n
\u201cPicture in Time\u201d is back in Blackpool with another photo taken during 1977.<\/p>\n
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Summer days of the past in Blackpool with sunshine, crowds of people and traditional trams in action on the Promenade. This photo is taken from the old Tower bridge again and looks across the tram tracks with three trams in view \u2013 one now scrapped, one with a very uncertain future and one which now resides in the United States of America. It\u2019s a corporate look for the trams too with all three in the traditional green and cream fleet livery.<\/p>\n
The trams we can see are Balloon 716<\/strong> (which went to Scotland and ended up being scrapped) which is waiting just short of the stop at Tower as Brush 637<\/strong> is just ahead heading north. 637<\/strong> is a tram which currently has a very uncertain future with it being one of the last two trams at Wyre Dock awaiting removal with the disbanding of the Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust. The centre track is then home to Boat Car 606<\/strong> \u2013 a tram which went over to the US in part exchange for Standard 147<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Illumination interest is provided by Locomotion and Rocket which were part of the Rail 150 display designed by Alan Cockcroft and originally conceived in 1975 for the 150th<\/sup> anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway.<\/p>\n
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