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English Electric Baloon #701
English Electric Baloon #703
28 april 2006 - Blackpool, Lancashire - Pleasure Beach. A closer look at #703, which is in original 1930s condition. The doors are hand-operated and the tram carries two conductors, one for each deck.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Comments: 5
28 april 2006 - Blackpool, Lancashire - Manchester Square. The tramway in Blackpool runs partly along the sea shore. In this picture, you can see the Eiffel Tower and the London Eye.....:-)
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
English Electric Baloon #706
28 april 2006 - Blackpool, Lancashire - Pleasure Beach, South Shore. Here we see the upper deck of #706. Note the trolley pole, two staircases and reversible seats - you can change their direction. In the background is another Balloon car #701 and also the Pepsi Max Big One roller-coaster
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Comments: 2
28 april 2006 - Blackpool, Lancashire - Pleasure Beach, South Shore. From your comments, it seems you find these trams interesting. Here is #706, built as an open-top tram but soon covered up (it rains a lot in England) and not converted again until 1985. It's called "Princess Alice"
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Comments: 1
English Electric Baloon #707
3 july 2009 - Blacpool, Queen's Promenade. Pewna osoba pytała o fotki tramwajów, więc pierwszą zamieszczam :) Pozdrowienia dla Ciebie :)
Author: kuszok
Author: kuszok
Comments: 5
English Electric Baloon #713
30 april 2005 - Fleetwood, Lord Street. Blackpool ‘Balloon’ car 713 travels through Fleetwood town centre – the last significant piece of traditional street tramway in England, where passengers still board and leave trams at roadside stopping places.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
English Electric Baloon #717
13 july 2010 - Blackpool (GB), zajezdnia. Tylko 3 miasta na świecie eksploatują liniowo piętrowe tramwaje - oprócz Blackpool jest to Hong-Kong i egipska Aleksandria. W Blackpool niestety spotkanie na mieście większej ilości piętrusów wymaga dostosowania daty wizyty - najlepsze są z pewnościa wakacyjne weekendy, a jeszcze lepsze organizowane od czasu do czasu specjalne imprezy czy parady.
Author: Jarosz
Author: Jarosz
7 august 2012 - Blackpool, Lancashire (UK – Pleasure Beach. Although the new Flexity trams now run the normal passenger service, Blackpool has kept a few of its 1930s traditional trams to provide a separate heritage service (rather as London has done with its Routemaster buses). A refurbished double deck ‘Balloon’ car waits at Pleasure Beach with the huge roller coasters behind.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
8 october 2015 - Blackpool, Pleasure Beach. Piętrus jako jeden z trzech wozów specjalnych uruchomionych na festiwal iluminacji. Blackpool zrobiło na mnie wrażenie strasznego kiczu. Fotografować się prawie nie dało - kursy specjalne jeżdżą bez przystanków a na pętli jest - jak widać. Obok jeden z podświetlanych "tramwajów" - niestety większość zdjęć z tego wieczora jest TWBunfriendly. Cały kicz w rytm muzyki z automatycznego teatru stojącego niedaleko (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPWgmmGltAs)
Author: Piotr Tomasik
Author: Piotr Tomasik
Comments: 5
3 september 2017 - Blackpool, Promenade. 2 starsze "balony" kursowały co 20 min. na trasie Pleasure Beach - Bispham. Obowiązuje w nich osobna taryfa - 3,50 funta za bilet dwuprzejazdowy.
Author: Banan
Author: Banan
English Electric Baloon #718
30 april 2006 - Fleetwood, Lancashire - Ferry Terminal. Two `Balloon` trams at the northern terminal loop of the Blackpool interurban tramway. Tram #718 has been modernised (ruined?) but the other is still as built in the 1930s. Many Blackpool trams carry garish, all-over advertising liveries.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Comments: 2
English Electric Baloon #719
28 april 2006 - Blackpool, Lancashire, UK – Pleasure Beach loop/petla. If you thought the Warszawa Ice Cream tram I pictured yesterday is funny, here is a tram of the Blackpool Tramway (a debut for this system on TWB). Walls Ice Cream is famous in UK, and this tram had a shop counter where you could buy ice cream as you travel!
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Comments: 6
English Electric Baloon #719
English Electric Baloon #721
English Electric Baloon #723
22 october 2010 - Cleveleys, Rosall Road, Cleveleys terminus. Due to the theft of yet non-electrified OHLE the modernised stretch to Fleetwood was not operational at the time. Much has changed in Blackpool in the last few years. In order to make the system look like a proper light rail line, half of the stops were removed, 16 low-floor Flexity Outlook 2 cars were ordered, a new depot (co-financed by the EU) was built and - sadly - some of the old tramcars were sold off (the remainder will run a tourist service between Blackpool and Bispham). Car 723 will luckily stay here. Apologies for the quality, but the weather situation wasn't exactly pretty at the time.
Author: straphan
Author: straphan
Comments: 1
3 september 2017 - Blackpool, Promenade. Tu bawią się angielskie Dżesiki i Brajanki. Co kilka kroków buda z fish&chips, chińską tandetą, automatami czy kiczowatymi atrakcjami.
Author: Banan
Author: Banan
English Electric Baloon #726
24 march 2010 - Blackpool, Rigby Road depot. Sadly, when we went to Blackpool we didn't want to check if there are any roadworks going on or something. Of course - there had been renewal works all winter, connected with the impending delivery of new low-floor trams. Thanks to these works there are lovely old Olympians running up and down the seafront but - sadly - these are all the trams we could take a picture of. Ah well - c'est la vie...
Author: straphan
Author: straphan
Comments: 1
English Electric Baloon #762
28 april 2006 - Blackpool, Lancashire - South Promenade. After the Centenary Class single-deckers, Blackpool tried converting double-deck Balloon cars to one person operation. Only two were built before it was realised that this was a very difficult and expensive option, so a new fleet of modern trams is still badly needed.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar