Date: 16/01/2012

BEING towed is bad at the best of times not least when you’re driving a tram! This driver, getting to grips with Blackpool’s state-of-the-art trams, found himself behind a Blackpool Transport truck last week when power in the overhead lines was switched off. Transport bosses say the tram was in perfect working order, but repairs to overhead cables meant it needed towing back to the station. [From Mark Bartlett]

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First of the newly delivered Blackpool Supertrams, photographed during an official ceremony in the new tram depot at Starr Gate on 8 September 2011 [see news item].
Location: Starr Gate
Company: Blackpool Tramroad and Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad
08/09/2011 Tony Roberts (Courtesy Mark Bartlett)

The new Fleetwood Ferry tram stop under construction outside the North Euston Hotel. It is seen here partly finished and replaced the old tram stop directly outside the Ferry itself. Previously there was just a setting down point here. [See image 26046] for the same location in 2009.
Location: Fleetwood Ferry
Company: Blackpool Tramroad and Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad
09/11/2011 Mark Bartlett

Car no 672, with 682 trailing, heading south past Blackpool Tower on the 19th of October 2010.
Location: Blackpool
Company: Blackpool Tramroad and Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad
19/10/2010 Bill Roberton