'Broadway to Blackpool' Now On Sale

The latest title from Rigby Road Publishing - Broadway to Blackpool - the story of centre entrance double deck tramcars - is now available at Blackpool Visitor Centre, Toys2Save at Cleveleys and Brooks Collectables shop on Waterloo Road next to the Promenade.

A profusely illustrated 120 pages book with especial focus on the Hedley - Doyle design for Manhattan's New York Railways company just before World War 1 - is a unique storyline on how Blackpool came to be the last operator of double deck trams with centre entrances (at least until 2011) and on heritage tours thereafter. Priced at £26.00 with £2.40 for post and packing - the book can be ordered through the online Shop pages on this site.

Launch subscribers are being mailed their advance copies this week.

Darwen streamliner built in Preston at the Blackburn Boulevard terminus of this 4 ft gauge line linking the two towns. One of two examples delivered to Darwen and the only 'narrow' gauge cars of this type. Numbers 23 and 24 both were sold on to Llandudno & Colwyn Bay operation in 1946 where they continued in service until the demise of that North Wales coastal tramway a decade later. Neither car survived.