Date: 30/04/2014

Funding for an £18.2m extension to Blackpool's tram system is in place after the town's council agreed to pay the remaining £4.7m towards the scheme. Under the plans the tramway will be extended from the resort's North Pier to Blackpool North railway station. [From Richard Buckby]

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Council agrees £4.7m tram funding

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Funding for an £18.2m extension to Blackpool's tram system is in place after councillors agree to pay the remaining £4.7m.

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Tracks to Nowhere - Yet. In Talbot Square by the North Pier tram stop a new junction was installed in the refurbished tramway for a planned (but until now unfunded) branch to Blackpool North railway station. Flexity 009 passes over the pointwork of the projected North to East chord of a triangular junction.
Location: Blackpool (North Pier)
Company: Blackpool Tramroad and Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad
14/05/2013 Mark Bartlett