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Blackpool Borough Council transferred the operation of the tramway and buses to Blackpool Transport Services Limited in 1986. [ 7 ] Blackpool was the only town in the UK that retained its trams and, between 1962 and 1992, it had the only urban tramway in the UK. [ 9 ] (
On 3 December 1884, Blackpool Corporation agreed to use Michael Holroyd Smith's conduit tramway and granted him a seven-year concession.. The Blackpool Electric Tramway Company was formed in January 1885, and set up with capital [2] of £30,000 (equivalent to £4,093,092 in 2023). [3]
The Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad was taken over by Blackpool Corporation Tramways on 1 January 1920 at a cost of £284,000 (equivalent to £14,409,085 in 2023). [3] Two tramcars survive, both in the National Tramway Museum collection. Rack No. 2, built in 1898, is on display at the National Tramway Museum in Crich, Derbyshire. Box No. 40 ...
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Birkenhead 70 left Blackpool in 1994 to operate on the Wirral Tramway, followed by Birkenhead 69 in 1995. Stockport 5 was loaned to Blackpool for passenger service between 1996 and 2011. Glasgow 1245 arrived in Blackpool in 1998 from the East Anglia Transport Museum, with intentions for it to be restored and join the Blackpool Tramway fleet.
Bar 2012 and 2020, “Blackpool week” has been a Strictly staple since, creating some of the show’s most memorable moments, from Danny Mac and Oti Mabuse’s slick Charleston to “Puttin ...
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Blackpool Transport Services Limited [1] is a bus and tram operator running within the boroughs of Blackpool and Fylde and into the surrounding area, including Fleetwood, Lytham St Annes, Poulton-le-Fylde, Cleveleys, Fleetwood and Preston.