John Woodman
Up The Pool ! Blackpool 2 - Lincoln 1 Wembley Stadium May 30, 2021
John Woodman The FHLT used their display tram at the Pleasure Beach (641) to celebrate the decades of Blackpool Football Club (BFC) which...
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John Woodman
- May 29, 2021
Tram Depot Experience
John Woodman I have been fortunate in 'sampling' several working tram depots as an outside observer. Visits to the dwindling tramways...
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John Woodman
- May 28, 2021
Rigby Road Depot - Best Use
John Woodman Comments posted online elsewhere on the recent announcement of a crowdfunding appeal for donations to cover the anticipated...
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John Woodman
- May 26, 2021
After 140 Years - Finally A Tram Museum ?
John Woodman The announcement that Blackpool Transport are launching a crowdfunding campaign to raise a Million Pounds to cover costs of...
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John Woodman
- May 25, 2021
Not Forgetting Centenary 642
John Woodman Some readers of this Blog may be perplexed at not seeing Centenary 642 profiled in recent editions covering the Centenary...
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John Woodman
- May 24, 2021
In Memoriam - Centenary Cars 641 - 648
John Woodman By way of follow up to the previous Blog some further images of the 'heyday' of Blackpool's Centenary cars which filled the...
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John Woodman
- May 22, 2021
The UK's Last Traditional Trams
John Woodman While they may not fill everyone's idea of a 'traditional tram' in fact Blackpool Council's final orders for seven four axle...
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John Woodman
- May 21, 2021
Greater British Railways
John Woodman A neat politics driven rebranding of the national railway network gives cause for celebration of a sort - with public...
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John Woodman
- May 20, 2021
305 Redesign
John Woodman Perhaps one of the more bizarre modifications on the bus fleet took place in 1960 when instructions from 'upstairs' mandated...
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John Woodman
- May 19, 2021
202 Redesign - Consequences 1949 - 1969
John Woodman A rarity among the one hundred strong postwar class of Burlingham bodied buses was number 202. It featured in press...
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