Night view illuminated frigate tram behind Marton Box Car 31, South Shore Turning Circle, Blackpool Illuminations, UK
Night view of illuminated frigate tram ('HMS Blackpool') behind Marton Box Car 31, picking up illuminations tour customers at the South Shore Turning Circle, looking towards the Pleasure Beach 'Big One' Rollercoaster. Marton Box Car 31 was built in 1901 as one of fifteen double deck trams supplied by the Midland Carriage and Wagon Company for the opening of the Blackpool Marton Route. It was originally built as a 4-wheel open top, double deck tram, but it was among five of the type rebuilt and lengthened to an 8-wheelbogie car in 1920. Marton Box Car 31 was withdrawn from service in 1934, becoming Blackpool Engineering Department's works car 4. In 1983 it was transferred to Beamish Museum, County Durham, and restored to its 1922 condition. Tram 736 'HMS Blackpool' was originally built in 1965, based on a Whitby-Class or Type-2 anti-submarine frigate of the Royal Navy. It was withdrawn from service in 2001, but, with its body redesigned (and loosely based on HMS Beaver) and carrying 64 passengers, it was returned to service for the 2004 Lights. A large number of people can be seen sitting both inside and on the open top of Marton Box Car 31.
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Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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