In 2024 Blackpool Heritage Tours are operating a reduced range of trams as the Heritage Tram depot in Rigby Road is being refurbished. Those being run are kept at Starr Gate depot.
Today, while we were there, three heritage trams were operating, 700 in Wartime Green livery and with B fleet doors for use on the new platforms, 717 in streamline livery and with double destination boards and roof lights. These English Electric trams were made in Preston in the 1930s.
Blackpool had a lot of taste with its art deco style tram and bus liveries specified by the General Manager Walter Luff, and the art deco buildings built by the Borough Architect, John Charles Robinson, which include libraries, The Cabin Lift and Derby Baths on North Shore, park buildings such as Stanley Park Art Deco Cafe, tram terminals such as Bispham.
The new tram spur to North Station is being tested and drivers trained. The heritage trams near North Pier.
The Boat tram 227 named, in 2018, Charlie Cairoli after the famous Blackpool Circus Clown.
The view from tram 717 with its Art Deco shaped wrap round windows.
