News


details received from LTT:

LTT are holding two open days this year, Sunday 30 Mar and Sunday 26
Oct - the Oct event should feature a display on the Promenade as per
last year but hopefully with more vehicles. The fourth
totallyTransport event takes place on Sunday 22 June.

On 30 March our depot (Brinwell Road, Marton) will be open from 1200-
1600 with a free bus service to/from Blackpool Town Hall (Market St)
every 30 mins. At the depot itself progress on the restoration of
Standard 143 will be visible and you should be able to see OMO 8 and
Coronation 663 too. Bus wise the situation is somewhat fluid
presently as we are in the process of relocating our commercial
Busworks business from our depot to its own premises and can
therefore bring some vehicles back from our secondary storage depot
to fill the vacated spaces. We just haven’t decided which ones yet!
Our trade stall and that of the Ribble Enthusiast Club will be open
for business.

On February 1st 2008 it was announced that the Blackpool tramway will receive £85 million (with £60 million coming from central government) to upgrade the line to a modern “Stadtbahn” (light rail) type line. Details of the funding for the tramroad upgrade can be found here and here

16 low floor trams will be purchased and some of the best of the old cars will be kept.