{"id":54094,"date":"2024-06-11T20:00:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54094"},"modified":"2024-06-11T18:27:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T17:27:03","slug":"welcome-to-t1-t2-and-t3-the-new-era-for-the-blackpool-tramway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54094","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to T1, T2 and T3 \u2013 the new era for the Blackpool Tramway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday 16th<\/sup> June will mark a new era for the Blackpool Tramway as for the first time in 88 years trams will be running along Talbot Road on the extension to North Station (and the first time since 1963 that trams ran to the station along the former Dickson Road route). As well as that bit history the same date will see route numbers introduced \u2013 welcome to T1, T2 and T3!<\/p>\n

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Things come round in a circle (and we don\u2019t mean Little Bispham or Pleasure Beach loops!) as the only previous time that there was a numbered tram route in Blackpool was when the Dickson Road route to North Station was no. 1, so using T1, T2 and T3 marks a bit of a change for the tramway. It also marks Blackpool out from the rest of the UK tramways as none others use numbers to denote routes (London Trams used to be but don\u2019t anymore and South Yorkshire Supertram use colours).<\/p>\n

As from Sunday 16th<\/sup> June the following routes will operate:<\/p>\n