Tramtown Blackpool TOUR - I Visit The Old Trams of Blackpool
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- Опубліковано 17 бер 2022
- I visit Tramtown in Blackpool at Rigby Road Transport's depot to show you all the heritage trams! including the famous illuminated trams such as the ABC Train Tram, The Rocket, HMS Blackpool and so much more! Bob & John are my personal tour guides! Tramtown has future plans to create a state-of-the-art visitor center and protect the precious vintage trams. A whole new roof is needed before this can happen so they need your help.
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HELP These guys need your help to raise money for a new roof so if you can SHARE this video across your social media it would help get the word out as these old trams need protection. Thank you x
Been in that work shop more times than you could possibly imagine, The smell is a mix of lubrication oil and molten/welded steel, as he says proper workshop.
@@sleeplessjam5358 I love it lol
So many memories. My late grandad used to take me on the trams after treating me to a Knickerbocker Glory in Binns. A travesty what has happened to Blackpool.
Well done great and for promoting the roof fund raiser to great job tim
Hi Tim, just wanted to say a huge thank you for taking the time to come and visit us at Tramtown. It meant so much to us, you really are a lovely chap and it was a real honour to meet you. Keep being awesome :)
That's very kind to say .. thanks paul and to John and Bob I had a great time it's so interesting
Very nice place Paul love old trams nice to see them go up Talbot street for the first time
yes I did see that!
A big thanks Paul i work in the Safety and Facilities Dept at BTS along with Craig we have been involved in assisting your great cause, thank you for all your hard work and dedication to get the depot repaired, along with Bryan Lindop and the vols you guys make such a difference.
Tram Town is a fantastic place to visit. Paul & his colleagues are super friendly. My wife & I were walking past the depot during the afternoon & the guys there saw I was like a kid in a sweet shop !! As a one off they invited us in for a guided tour as we were not staying in Blackpool for long & was unable to book the next scheduled one. If you are in Blackpool & want to indulge yourself in history, go & visit. Sadly walking back to the hotel along the prom, some yobbos thought it funny throwing glass bottles at us, which otherwise spoilt a perfect day !!
Agree Guy
Fabulous to see inside the depot and all that goes on to keep these trams on the rails and running for all to enjoy them.
Absolute salt of the earth these two walking you through it. They're visibly excited to have someone interested in their craftsmanship, 10/10 video Tim!
agree!
According to 1900s reasoning, open trams actually were a Health&Safety feature - people thought the cold and fresh air would keep the drivers alert! Vienna, where I live and drive vintage trams, only started enclosing platforms after a very harsh winter in the 1930s (extended temperaturs in the -20s I think). New cars were built with enclosed platforms from around 1910 onwards but did run with the doors open until the last pre-war cars were withdrawn from service in 1978. The first cars with remote-controlled doors were introduced in 1951.
This workshop is nothng short of amazing, including the staff! Apparently there's only a handful of workshops left in Europe certified to replace tram tyres on solid wheels like this and they charge a fortune. Modern trams have rubber buffers between the wheels and tyres and the tyres are just pressed on cold, which is a lot less faff than the old way. From what I've heard it costs 50 grand to have four heat-fitted tyres replaced!
Great video Tim. The modern trams may be more comfortable, but they just don't have the character of the vintage ones, always loved travelling on them, it was great to see them again.
Agree Jane
Amen to that, I take riding the old trams over the copy and paste trains. After all they had character, class and unique style that anyone can tell them apart where there from like Glasgow tram, a Liverpool tram or London tram. the things that the new ones don't have.
Having gone to school near Fleetwood, and the tram being an economical way to get into Cleveleys and Blackpool I have such fond memories of journeys to and from school. A true piece of Blackpool history and thanks for bringing awareness to this
I love trams! We have trams running here in Melbourne, of course. We also have a tram museum/depot in the suburb of Hawthorn. It is brilliant. Not always open, but I had a lovely time ringing as many bells as I could. Who says we have to grow up! 😉
exactly!!
Great video, Tim! If you ever get the chance in the summer, then you need to visit Beamish Open Air Museum, near Newcastle. It's like stepping back in time. Cheers! 😊
Will do 😃
I still can't believe they put my zoo design on the tram at the start. 😄
No way!
I love that tram that is a ship.
Me too
What a fantastic place. I remember most of these trams when they were in service. No one ever thought anything of standing on the track to get on the rocket. Makes me feel old, good times though 😀
Absolutely fabulous 👌. Our heritage is rapidly being scrapped. Way back when I was a kid one of the highlights was a ride on the tram. I just love our old buses and trams.
My best wishes from Liverpool.
Glad you enjoyed it Philip
Another brilliant vlog. Seen a few done on Tramtown but yours is the most informative. This a fantastic museum and vital in relation to recording the transport history of this Country. It deserves both national and local support.
Glad it was helpful!
Really interesting tour, really love that they are keeping our heritage alive. Thanks Tim 😊😊
Thanks Bridgette
I'm from Blackpool and had no idea you could visit. Definitely on my agenda 👍🏻
Wow yes go for it
Wow, this was so interesting. Thanks very much Tim for showing it to us and raising awareness of the work going on there to preserve these lovely heritage vehicles. Angie
My pleasure!
loved this video. i'm always looking for fresh things to do with the kids when we go and they would love this. i'm also going to share it a a Blackpool fb group i'm in. Bobs a legend lol
He is .. lol
My funny memory of those trams in the 1970s was the times when the pantograph (the long rod that tracks the electric overhead cable) came off the cable and the driver or conductor got off to use a long bamboo pole with a hook on the end. He would reconnect the rod to the power supply and set off again. As I recall, this took about 2 minutes. The ride on those trams was quite rough, so I assume that the tracks were in poor shape in the past. You would need to hang on because a sudden bump could knock you off your seat or off your feet. As a boy, that was good fun!
Wow 😃
Trolley poles are somewhat notorious for coming off the wire and they require quite complicated supports for the actual wire because the pickup goes partly around the wire. Other types of pickup, like pantographs, only touch the bottom of the wire, which is why many cities in Europe changed very early. Vienna phased out trolley poles before WWI and replaced them with Siemens lyra-style pickups.
13:30 - 15:34 This took me flying back to around 1970. Those seats (almost as hard as the planks underneath), their 'art nouveux' covers, the light-fittings, and the stairs (as if designed to break an ankle if you mistrod while the tram was in motion). 😃 And he's completely right about the front bench being the exciting place to sit!
Absolutely wonderful! Thanks so much for this vid!
I absolutely love the heritage trans, my childhood was blackpool...We'd get to our digs, and my parents would send me iff to find the name of our tram stop, then fun time, tram trips every day.
Fascinating didn't know they was so many trams memories of riding certain ones great video tim
Thanks!
That was very interesting Tim. I love trams and would like to see more of them around the UK towns and Cities.
Thanks John
What a fantastic vlog this was Tim, so informative. Thanks must also go to the chaps that were talking us through the years of the trams in Blackpool. Absolutely brilliant Tim, thanks for sharing. Great job.👍🚃🚋
Totally agree and they all are volunteers and came in just for me
Love this video. I have probably traveled on every tram in this video at some time over the years. Good to see balloons 700, 715 and 717. The twin cars and the brush cars bring back memories. The one tram there that I would pay good money to ride on again is omo 8 in plum and custard livery.
Oh wow .. amazing
I lived in San Francisco for a couple of years and remember one Sunday afternoon walking down Market street and seeing a Blackpool open deck tram with The Pleasure Beach as its destination running past me. It tool me back 40 years when I use to go to Blackpool for my holidays with the family as a child. I'll see if I can find a picture I took with my camera ( film in thise days not digital) and add it here.
Thanks Colin
This is so brilliant, Tim.
Shared for my friends who also love trams🙂
Thank you so much 💓
Awesome, thank you!
What a fantastic place....all those tram meeories from visiting blackpool overcpast 45 years. Loved riding the tram along the prom.. I'd love some rich person to donate a million pounds. This could be quite a tourist attraction. Absolutely loved the 1901 tram....such style.
Tim you don't half push out some content, which is great for someone like me who does not own or watch TV, who loves nothing more than exploring pretty little English towns and villages!
I will tell you a secret now Tim, but keep this between us, but, my favourite English village is Dunster in Somerset! Visited many times now, last time was in 2017 for a few days staying in the village itself in a lovely B&B, right by the old yarn market building, with views of the castle and the sea over at Blue Anchor Bay, the yarn market itself is the perfect place of an evening for some people watching while drinking a nice Black Russian, though the village life is obviously so much quieter than in a town, the village is asleep by 10pm, so for a night owl like me, I found it odd. But what a stunning place Tim, honestly, it is quentissentially English, such a pretty place with a very relaxed vibe.
Just, don't tell anyone or they will all head there 😀
Thanks for the tip! hey I'm glad you are enjoying the videos! every now and then I will do a video slightly different which this is so thanks for watching
Well you have just told us all by saying it on here.
I’m booking my holiday now!
Blimey things really were built to last back in the 1920s & 30s weren’t they. Great video. Lovely to see old trams being so well cared for.
Totally agree
This a very informative blog I remember the illuminated trams. Every year in August my mum and lots of family members would holiday in Blackpool just to see the trams and illuminations, definitely remember the rocket tram, its a real walk back in my childhood holidays. 🙂
Wow me too lol thanks scully
# ‘I’m a rocket tram’ 🚀 🚃
Hi Tim. Really brought back memories. Trams museum great. I remember the missiippi river boat team and the rocket when I was a kid even the boat and steam train trams. I was wanted to goon the boat or train ones everynigjt drove my parents crazy.My thought was green and white trams were only good for daytime and no lights they werepitchblack. No convincing me they had lights inside.
Lol
Those old green and cream trams are my childhood holidays right there - bliss
Right children? Right Charlie !!!!!!!! You have to know old school kids TV for that to make sense
Lol
Greetings from România! Very interesting your video! Congratulations!
Thanks
There's a tram museum in lowestoft at Carlton Coalville. It's not too bad also has a few buses.
yes I know it well
What a very interesting place never new it existed love the old trams you see plenty of train stations but how many of these not many I bet great video
Thank you Karl
What a fantastic video, thank you to the depot for allowing you to visit and share with us.
Thanks Mark , do share the video to help them out
@@WalkWithMeTim Shared on FB
nice one thanks Mark
Massive thumbs up from me Tim, that was super interesting and those lovely old trams are living history! The only trams I have been on are at Beamish open air museum (well worth a visit) in county Durham but I would definitely like to visit the trams in Blackpool.
Yes.. thanks Jeff
What an absolutely brilliant video Tim! Took me back to childhood holidays in the early 70s, happy days. I shall certainly go see the guys next time I'm in Blackpool. Shared on FB
I know foxyb love the old trams
Please do!
its the sound .. the smell! cant beat it
Great video Tim never been to Blackpool a must visit now just to c all these trams
You should!
That was amazing, wish we still had Trams in Lowestoft
I know up north they still love them! lol
is it any good Dave?
Great to see these amazing trams being cared for by such brilliant people, great video Tim keep up the good work
A very good Friday evening to you sir and your family
Hello David, hope you are well
those old trams were regular transport for me when I grew up, I loved those double deckers they seemed old in the 70's. I remember the conductor walking down the tram flipping the seats ready for the return journey. As kids we did it because you could and the conductor would be annoyed having to go round put them back. In winter you might have been the only person on a tram, will visit the tram sheds this year when not staying at the Norbreck.
Really interesting video. Would never have heard about Tramtown otherwise but will make sure to visit next time. Great work by the staff.
Thanks for watching
Great tour ,really enjoyed it . Thank you ⭐️
Thanks Christine
I hope they got the funding what a beautiful idea I loved being on the trams when I was a child hope the tours are continuing ❤
I've been on them trams ,all of the old favourites too.weve got old family slides with pictures of them all .I used to love blackpool.im glad to hear that some money is being put to doing the place back up.✌️🐜
Yes great part of town
Brilliant video Tim love these old trams takes me back to when I was a kid on holiday in blackpool to ride on these trams was magical take care stay safe m8 👍
Glad you enjoyed it John
Splendid! That was so interesting. Thank you!
I love British nostalgia greetings from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
hello Ian
@@WalkWithMeTim hello Tim we will visit this lovely place when the lighter nights are here because it’s a six hour round trip we park at the south shore and walk walk walk and maybe stay overnight
love Blackpool! where do you stay
@@WalkWithMeTim I stay in south Lanarkshire in a village called ashgill a three hour drive to Blackpool 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Fantastic video. Wish I could visit but I'm far from the UK. I'm originally from Coventry where we also used to have trams. The Coventry tram system was bombed out of existence in 1940 during the blitz.
Like a blast from the past. Remember when I was a kid the no spitting signs on all buses.
wow that must be going back Dave lol
@@WalkWithMeTim Only slightly, some odd 60 years back.
@@davethornley1955 lol
Amazing old trams thanks 4 sharing love this
Me too love a bit of seaside history
Hi Tim such a lovely piece of history very interesting. I hope they reach there goal. Thanks for sharing with us. Love to you as always Tracey 💕 xxxx
Yes I love tram history 😍
Thankyou for a fantastic tour Tim.
I had great memories of Blackpool with the illuminations and arcade machines on the front. I got to see these trams when they passed and turned around, at Little Bispham where I stayed at a B n B.
something about trams at the seaside I love!
Hi Tim enjoying this stream nice to see part of history being preserved
Glad you enjoyed it Lesley
Totally fascinating nostalgic look into Blackpool trams and those who look after them.
Thanks Ian
Amazing love the old wooden trams .. i hope they achieve the total needed for the new roof and more
In London it was the Metropolitan Police who would not allow windscreens to interfere with the driver's view. They relented only in the late 1930s.
wow
Tramrown looks very interesting Tim if your into putting things together,my dad would have understood the place better than me,I don't know what I am looking at,but it's so nice there are these people who still look after these trams,they are iconic and so much part of Blackpool.Thanks for the video Tim
great walk round the tram depot Tim very informative Thanks very much.
Can't wait too see this!❤❤
😊
23:52 my uncle helped restore Bolton 66 he was a Wood working specialist hired by the restoration group, at the time the tram was just a hen coop. He rebuilt the upperdeck and made some new seating. There is a plaque on the inside as a dedication. He helped restore other trams as well after that, he must have been given a good review.
Great Vid Tim really interesting seeing all those old trams
Thanks Ross
I remember seeing that tram train at Blackpool and 8years when the last time I went to Blackpool I went on the old London tram at Blackpool I love it sooo much
I remember the sea life tram from when I was a kid. Back in 2005 😢
Hi Tim what an interesting video it was good to watch thank you for showing us it certainly was different
Glad you enjoyed it Sally
I am really enjoying your videos, thank you for sharing.
This one is absolutely brilliant!!
Your enthusiasm meant that you asked all the questions I would have done!!
wow that's kind thanks Jill
Worth a trip to Blackpool just to visit Tramtown! Great video of a fascinating place.
Agree
Another great video of Tramtown Blackpool TOUR - I Visit The Old Trams of Blackpool.👍👍
Thanks Michael
Fantastic, very interesting, well done. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video and great memories. I was lucky enough to get a ride on the rocket tram as a kid in the late 70s. In my memory you sat on a slope but I wasn’t sure if I’d imagined that bit, pleased to see that my memory was correct 😃
Thank you so much Tim, a very informative, enjoyable and for many of us a quite evocative trip down memory lane, the sights, sounds and smells of the trams still linger in our most treasured memories.
The restoration work being carried out by the tram teams is amazing, and looks even better in a 4k rewatch.
Have you thought about visiting canalrivertrust.org.uk/places-to-visit/national-waterways-museum at Elsmere port someday
Thanks Belvedere , ill see how this video does first ;-)
Love it Tim, nice one👍👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it
So interesting Tim . It is amazing to see this. Thanks 👏🏻☀️
Thanks mel
Tim you and Gaby have a great weekend. Little Thumper ( Casper) and Holly too. Sending some sun your way if you need it.☀️
you too , hope you have some sun
@@WalkWithMeTim the sun did come out after all today Tim. Hope you and Gaby are having a wonderful day . I know it has been busy for you both today. Take care Tim☀️
Loved this one Tim x
thanks Laura
Lovely video Tim really enjoyed it.Now you know you loved ringing that bell😂😂😂😂thankyou😁😁😘😘
its got to be done a child hood dream lol
Tramnik 1 is the tram I most associate with Blackpool. I remember as a kid always keeping an eye out for it when we went to see the illuminations. That was in the early '90s.
nice
Fascinating thanks Tim 👍
you are welcome thanks for clicking it Mark
Hi Tim fantastic video every time I visited Blackpool I was always fascinated by the trams though I have not been to Blackpool since 2009
Wow .. yes I'm a fan too, thanks for watching Stephen
Maybe you could visit the transport museum in Suffolk x 🙂
if this does well I might
Love old transport museums love the one in Crich Derbyshire x
:-)
Id love to work there, at 36 ive followed electric motor development over the years and you can see it in the generations of trams, theres an original battery tram from that area that was cutting edge in the late 1800's
If you are near see if you can get involved
South wales, pipe dream.
Brilliant
Brilliant!
😃
Very interesting thx Tim.
Glad you enjoyed it
Brilliant video 👍thanks
Thanks
What a great tour, Tim! These vintage double decked trams, or similar, they still have running in Hong Kong. Have never seen a boat tram before!
You should see them lit up
Great video,i enjoyed my depot tour in January 2022,bought some nice tram merchandise
Very nice!
If I had to list your top 5 videos this would be one of them. From positive interaction with the care home residents you are aware I work with to my partner who as I’ve said in her younger days spent annual holidays in the Blackpool area. Thank you very enjoyable
Wow, thank you!
Wonderfull video. I stayed in Cleveleys for a bit in the winter of 84/85. Loved the trams and often caught one down to visit Tower Models in Blackpool. (Are they still there) After four months in Europe I came back to find double decker and illuminated trams along with 100,000 tourists. None of which were there in winter. The difference between winter Blackpool and summer Blackpool is crazy.
Yes agree
Didn't spitting have something to do with the transmission of tuberculosis? I can certainly remember it on buses as a child - although, it was quite often 'altered' so that it referred to a quite different bodily function!! This is a brilliant attraction - worth a trip to Blackpool at some point, I'm sure! Thanks for the preview - I'd not have known about it otherwise!
You're welcome Paul.. yes I think you are correct
Has the crowdfunding target been met?
Great video, I took over 2000 photos of the trams from 1978 to 1991....
Oh wow!
Funnily enough, spitting IS a problem on the railways to the extent we have to carry a spit kit around. Lovely tour though. Only tram I've actually been on was at Crich. Still evidence of the tramway from around Bournemouth and some of the old stuff is still at Christchurch, as far as I know.
awesome.
thanks!
Thank you really informative video
Hey thanks
I went on the rocket when I was a child
I think over the years went on all the illuminated trams
Great childhood memories
I may be misguided but I have kind of high hopes for the tramway going forward. Great to see Rigby Road still in use... Also these guys are great.
Thanks for watching
Went on the open top double decker when I was 9 or ten years old my dad left his Video camera on it and we had to get it back. We were on the last tour on the night lucky so the people on depot duty let us get back on and collect it.
wow!
Also when I went to San Francisco back in may 2015 I didn't see the Blackpool boat trams or didn't even visit the Tram museum.
oh
@@WalkWithMeTim I know Gutted mate I also found out Mick Foley and the Undertaker planed to have a WWE match in Alcatraz prison called a Boiler room brawl