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	temp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Blackpool Corporation built a fleet of 42 traditional ‘Standard’ cars during the 1920s in response to both growing patronage on the tram routes and a need to rationalise the assortment of tram types, many originating from the early 1900s.
		To restore a 1924-built Blackpool tram back to operational condition as a key part of Blackpool’s diverse heritage and facilitate operation on the Blackpool tramway once work is complete, to demonstrate the transport of yesteryear.
		Blackpool had the country’s first electric street tramway and, from 1962 was also the last operating street tramway in the UK until the new breed of tramways in cities such as Manchester, Sheffield and Birmingham opened in the 1990s.
	www.blackpooltrams.info /features/Standard143.htm (693 words)

	Blackpool tramway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Blackpool tramway is a tramway system serving Blackpool and Fleetwood and the only surviving first-generation tramway in the UK dating back to 1885.
		Due to damage to the central roof caused by gale, the depot was demolished on 4 November 1982.
		Blackpool is notable today as one of the three surviving non-heritage tramways to use double-deck trams, the others being in Hong Kong and Alexandria, Egypt; they are, however, outnumbered by single-deck trams.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blackpool_tramway (1806 words)

	Blackpool 1982
		It owes its survival primarily to the success of Blackpool as a tourist destination, both for holidaymakers and day-trippers, generating large volumes of traffic in the summer months and as well as being the most efficient method of moving people between the attractions and the hotels which line the sea front.
		By this time, Blackpool had extended its tramway inland from the Promenade along Lytham Road, and in 1900 northwards along the promenade to Gynn Square to terminate close to the tracks of the Fleetwood railroad which turned inland at this point to reach its terminus at the North Station.
		Blackpool has continued to build new single deck cars on the basis of old Railcoach trucks when finances permit and refurbish the double-deck "Balloons" for further service, some in the traditional style and others with new ends and revised internal layouts.
	website.lineone.net /~tramscape/Blackpool/Blackpool.htm (1489 words)

	GENUKI: Blackpool, Lancashire genealogy
		Growth of the County Borough of Blackpool in the County of Lancashire, from 1500 to 1926
		The first mention of Blackpool is found in the Register of Bispham Parish Church in the year 1602 in which is recorded the Christening on September 22nd of that year of a Child belonging to a Couple who reside on the Bank of the Black Pool.
		Blackpool was used as a training Ground for troops and also the headquarters of the Royal Army Medical Corp. (R.A.M.C.) Hospital beds erected in the old race-course grandstand at Squires Gate, under Doctor Winder of South Shore.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/LAN/Blackpool/history.html (2719 words)

	BLACKPOOL HISTORY, WINDMILL GUEST HOUSE BLACKPOOL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Blackpool was constituted a County Borough on 1st October 1904, a dignity it retained until the reorganisation of local government on 1st April 1974.
		Blackpool, ever eager to encourage new developments, held its first motor speed trials on the new Promenade in October 1904 and in October 1909 it staged one of the first aviation meetings in the world, attracting many famous aviators.
		By 1937, Blackpool’s sea defences, promenades and shelters extended from its boundary with Cleveleys in the north to Squires Gate in the south.
	www.windmillblackpool.co.uk /blackpool_history.htm (4444 words)

	Blackpool \| Hotels \| Guesthouse \| Accommodation \| Attractions
		Blackpool Corporation took over the Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad Company in 1920 and the system thus gained another eight route miles of track (with six on private reservation), two depots in Fleetwood and one in Bispham.
		The final tramway extension came in 1926 when the line was extended along the new South Promenade from Pleasure Beach to Clifton Drive (today known as Starr Gate) where a connection was built to the Lytham St. Annes tracks.
		Blackpool Corporation was interested in purchasing the line to St. Annes Square but the tramway was abandoned.
	www.octaviaguesthouse.co.uk /trams.htm (1629 words)

	English Industrial Sites - Blackpool Tramway
		Until the fairly recent initiative to re-introduce a tram service in some major towns and cities around Britain, the Blackpool Tramway was the last to survive in England.
		By this time many tramways elsewhere in the country were disappearing in favour of trolley bus services, but Blackpool were convinced that the tramway remained the most efficient and reliable form of transport.
		Blackpool Transport Services continue to operate the Blackpool Tramway, providing a service to some seven million passengers for 362 days every year.
	www.theheritagetrail.co.uk /industrial/blackpool_trams.htm (526 words)

	Tramway - Tram Fleet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		On display in the Exhibition Hall Derby 1 dates from 1903 and was used for crew training prior to the opening of the electrified system in Derby where it ran for 30 years.
		46 was one of twelve single decker trams purchased for the opening of the electric tramways.
		This tram was placed in service in 1934 and was donated to the Tramway Museum Society after the closure of the mine on which it ran.
	www.tramway.co.uk /smx/cms/tramfleet (659 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Blackpool, UK - a short historical visit.
		Blackpool started to attract visitors from Lancashire's gentry by the 1720s and in 1735 a cottage owned by Ethart a' Whiteside was opened as the first guest house used for visitors.
		Blackpool is situated on a level dreary moorish coast; the cliffs are of earth and not very high.
		At Blackpool, on the 7th September, 1786, as W Tidd, Esq was bathing (the weather being tempestuous, and the tide ebbing) he was taken off his feet, and by the violence of the waves involuntarily carried out to sea, to the distance of a mile.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A2408410 (2017 words)

	Railways of Britain2
		To avoid single line running and passing loops a special dispensation was granted for the tramway to be laid with the northbound line in the gutter rather than in the middle of the road and with the south bound line in the centre of the road.
		The tramway along this section is also relatively new as it was opened in 1925 to make way for the new road and also reducing the distance of the tramway and the time it would take to get to Fleetwood having originally described an unnecessary curve.
		The tramway passes down Lord street and North Albert street where when built the poles supporting the overhead wire were sited down the centre of the road, but in 1927 they were brought together with the street lamps and situated at the sides of the road with the track being repositioned.
	groups.msn.com /RailwaysofBritain2/theblackpoolandfleetwoodtramway.msnw (970 words)

	blackpool_pd3s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Blackpool’s half cab buses gained classic bus status towards the end of their lives, but in fact it was not until 1965 that Blackpool adopted this conventional double deck bus design.
		Although the first to be withdrawn was in 1977, the type had relatively long lives with Blackpool Transport with the last examples operating in passenger service until November 1988.
		Two Blackpool PD3s are retained by LTT as a source of spare parts.
	www.ltt.org.uk /ourbuses/blackpool_pd3.html (787 words)

	FT.com / Home UK / UK - The last resort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Blackpool has the highest rate of alcohol- related deaths and the second-lowest male life expectancy in England and Wales; its suicide rate is eight times worse than the least risky areas, and the teenage pregnancy rate is 73 per cent higher than the national average.
		Blackpool has not announced a preferred operator for any casino that is built, but if it does come to Blackpool, Hemmings will be a winner: the earmarked site - the Golden Mile seafront and car park - is mainly owned by the council and Leisure Parcs.
		Blackpool's chances of getting a casino are slimmer than they were - after a parliamentary compromise last year, the government will only award one licence instead of the eight that had been expected - but Etches remains convinced Blackpool will be the winner.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/96f9648c-349f-11db-bf9a-0000779e2340.html (3294 words)

	Blackpool, U.K., Trams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The resort town of Blackpool, England, nestled along the Irish Sea, is home to one of the most interesting tramway systems in the world.
		The tramway system in Blackpool had its birth as a conduit line on the Promenade on Sept 29, 1885, from today's Talbot Square to near South Pier.
		The most familiar Blackpool Transport trams are the "Balloons", 26 of which were built in 1934-35 by English Electric.
	world.nycsubway.org /eu/uk/blackpool.html (943 words)

	TheTrams.co.uk: Blackpool trams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The first tram line in Blackpool opened along the Promenade in 1885, and was the first electric tramway in the country.
		Blackpool Corporation took over the system in 1892, and the system expanded to serve much of the Fylde coast and towns inland.
		Blackpool is a seaside town, and passenger traffic on the tramway is heavier in summer than in winter.
	www.thetrams.co.uk /blackpool (351 words)

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		The Blackpool Electric Tramway Company was formed in January 1885, the first rail was laid in March and the first test runs were made on 29th June.
		The tramway was officially opened on 29th September 1885, the first electric street tramway in the land.
		The Tramways Committee decided that in view of this problem the rest of the trams on order, with the exception of the two which were nearing completion would be mounted on two bogies instead.
	www.blackpool-in-the-box.freeserve.co.uk /history,trams.htm (1167 words)

	Blackpool History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Blackpool Mayor from 1889 to 1891, Alderman John Bickerstaffe, with his brother Tom, was to be influential members of the Blackpool council for decades.
		The Blackpool Tramway was ten years old and with the completion of the Victoria Pier in 1893, it brought an ever-greater throng of people to the sand hills.
		Blackpool became popular with the Scottish visitors’ because of these dire consequences, wartime travel restrictions kept the usual town trippers’ loyal and the Lancashire working class continued to come to the resort, even with a sharp rise of train fares in 1917.
	www.blackpool4fun.com /history.htm (12130 words)

	NEW EDINBURGH TRAMWAYS - The trams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The prototype TRAM LRV is 29m long, 2.4m wide to fit the swept path of the Blackpool Tramway, and 2.9m high, with two 4 wheel power bogies, one at each end of the LRV, and a 2 wheel unpowered truck at the central articulation supporting the two main body parts.
		For the Blackpool tramway the pantograph is mounted mid way between a bogie and the central articulation.
		The LRV has been taken over all the tracks of the Blackpool Tramway to ensure that all swept path calculations are achieved in practice and that there is a safe distance between passing vehicles and fixtures along the tramway.
	www.edinburgh-tram.co.uk /tramtest.htm (1763 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1984, I made a fleeting visit to Blackpool, whilst staying with relatives in Hull, on England's east coast.
		Blackpool 'Jubilee' double decker tram 762 and One-man tram 11 at Talbot Square on 2 March 1984.
		Blackpool double-deck 'Balloon' tram 716 in Hopton Road on the approach to the Depot.
	www.myweb.net.au /mottram/trams/blackpool/Blackpool2.htm (117 words)

	History of Blackpool
		A Chronology of the growth of the County Borough of Blackpool in the County of Lancashire, from 1500 to 1938
		Marton Moss was a swamp and a small brook drained from it running North West, called Spen Brook this was widened and deepened later to the Moss and renamed Spen Dyke.
		The first mention of Blackpool is found in the Register of Bispham Parish Church, in which is recorded the Christianry on September 22nd of that year of a Child belonging to a Couple who reside on the Bank of the Black Pool.
	rmhh.co.uk /blackpool.html (2731 words)

	Blackpool Picture Book - Visitor Feedback
		There is already a group for local people interested in the tramway, but it may be appropriate for people from a wider area to assist in lobbying politicians to provide active assistance - and money - to Blackpool to upgrade and extend the tramway.
		I lived in Blackpool in Gorse Road, just off Whitegate Drive for years and when I went to school [the old Blackpool Grammar School in Raikes Parade] I used to use the trams to travel backwards and forwards to school.
		A neighbour has just return from Blackpool and he was very upset by the pantograph and no trolley pole on trams but he did say how smooth they were.
	www.cyberpictures.net /blackpool/feed.htm (1202 words)

	Fylde Tramway Society: Best of FTN
		The Birkenhead heritage tramway is in operation on Saturdays and Sundays, 1 pm to 5pm April to October and 12pm to 4pm November to March, also Wednesday to Sundays during the Easter, Spring half term and summer school holidays (1 pm to 5pm).
		This often overlooked class is a valuable piece of the jigsaw that is the history of the Blackpool tramway, and it was felt crucial that one be acquired and restored to take its place in any future visitor attraction.
		Blackpool s arrived in November 1982 at a cost of £35,000 with a body by Rawlinson of Blackburn who had built 439 and 443 s cabs and towers.
	fyldetramwaysociety.twoday.net /stories/1943124 (4776 words)

	Blackpool Holidays Trams- The One Stop Accommodation & Information Site On Blackpool, UK
		The tramway started at Cocker Street, just north of Talbot Square and stretched all the way to Dean Street, near South Pier.
		The train comprises two different types of car: the locomotive is built on 1934 rail coach 209, and the trailer on Pantograph car 174.
		No Site on Blackpool would be complete without reference to the trams, however this Site has been constructed to give a general overview of all Blackpool's major attractions, therefore, for those visitors wishing to gain more information on this subject, a visit to
	www.blackpool-holidays.com /trams.htm (414 words)

	GuideMeTo Blackpool - activities, attractions & accommodation in Blackpool. Accommodation database for Blackpool ...
		Blackpool is probably the most famous seaside resort in the UK.
		Blackpool is reknown for its high class entertainment, why not spend a night in one of Blackpool's theatres being entertained by famous celebrities, or try to win it big in the casino or the amusement arcade?
		Blackpool also has a high reputation in the North West for its clubbing scene with a number of high quality night clubs and wine bars available.
	www.guidemeto.co.uk /blackpool.html (316 words)

	LRTA Links: System Sites - United Kingdom
		Blackpool - Official site for Metro Coastlines (owned by Blackpool Transport Services) which operates the historic tram line (and local bus services) with rider information (fares, timetables, system map), press releases, job opportunities, and advertising opportunities (including the different ways in which trams can be decorated).
		Blackpool Tramway Photos - Alan Robson's "comprehensive photo record of the current fleet of Blackpool Tramways" with almost 400 photos (as of April 2004) taken since the summer season of 2002 and organized into 15 different collections (by subject).
		Blackpool Tram and Bus Photo Archive - Alan Robson's further collection of personal photos taken from the 1970's through the 1990's with roughly 100 tram photos (as of April 2004) including a wonderful set on the illuminated trams (often with the same car in different years).
	www.lrta.org /links-systems-uk.html (4839 words)

	Blackpool Tramways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The line to Fleetwood was built by a separate company, the Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad Co. in 1898.
		This was opened by the Blackpool, St.Annes and Lytham Tramways company in 1896, using gas powered trams.
		In the early sixties, the Blackpool street routes were closed, leaving the reserved track Promenade and Fleetwood route which remains today.
	www.eye-kay.freeserve.co.uk /trams/blackpool (232 words)

	Picture of Blackpool, Lancashire - Free Pictures - FreeFoto.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Blackpool is one of England's premier sea-side resorts.
		With its 1867 built tower and 1885 tram system, the world's first electric street tramway, Blackpool is a popular holiday destination.
		Blackpool Sea Front in the middle of Winter
	www.freefoto.com /pictures/uknorth_west_england/blackpool/index.asp (175 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Lancashire \| Historic tram wins renovation bid
		Blackpool Transport applied to the Heritage Lottery Fund to restore the tram back to its 1928 appearance.
		Blackpool Transport Services received more than 1,000 letters from the public urging the restoration of the Western Train Tram.
		"It is an icon, both in terms of the world-renowned Blackpool Illuminations and also the historic and much-loved Blackpool tramway experience," he added.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/england/lancashire/5406074.stm (336 words)

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