
Goodbye To Traditional Trams
John Woodman The departure of Blackpool's final trams from regular service marked the end of designs unique to the resort's famous seafront operation in 2010. The town's Rigby Road Workshops had managed to sustain its service as the sole tram system in the UK following closure of the final Glasgow tram service (9) in September 1962. Like Glasgow's equally famous Coplawhill tram works, Blackpool's workshops with local skills became responsible for developing successive tra