{"id":65175,"date":"2026-11-02T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=65175"},"modified":"2026-11-01T09:52:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T09:52:32","slug":"old-and-new-blackpool-tramway-fleetwood-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=65175","title":{"rendered":"Old and New \u2013 Blackpool Tramway: Fleetwood Ferry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cOld and New\u201d returns again today and we are still on the Blackpool Tramway as we see a traditional tram and a modern Flexity2 in action at around the same location on the line. This time we\u2019re at Fleetwood Ferry.<\/p>\n

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5th September 2006 and we take a look at the location of where trams used to load for their return trips towards Blackpool on Fleetwood Esplanade. Back in the days of the traditional tramway it was an unloading round in Bold Street (where the modern day tram stop platform is) before the tram moved onto the Esplanade to load for its next journey. And its Twin Car 671+681 which is in that position on this day. The tram was one of five Twin Cars which had received mini overhauls and repaints when double deckers were banned from running to Fleetwood. Both parts of the Twin survive to this day but they have been split with the motor owned by the FTT and on display at St Helens whilst the trailer is part of Blackpool\u2019s own fleet and is at Rigby Road.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The modern photo shows Flexity2 008 in more or less the same place on 27th September 2026 as it runs along the Esplanade with a service for Starr Gate. As mentioned above there is no stop here now with trams running along the Esplanade before turning into Pharos Street as their journey to Blackpool gets underway. (Both Photographs by Gareth Prior)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cOld and New\u201d returns again today and we are still on the Blackpool Tramway as we see a traditional tram and a modern Flexity2 in action at around the same location on the line. This time we\u2019re at Fleetwood Ferry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65175"}],"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=65175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65178,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65175\/revisions\/65178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}