Blackpool North Pier Tramway: On September 2nd 1991 a narrow gauge (891mm) Pier Tramway opened on Blackpool's Victorian North Pier. It was closed again after the 2004 season and the tram was removed from the pier for scrap - no replacement is planned. 

There were 3 cars which ran as a permanently coupled train. They were built by Harry Steer Engineering of Breaston, Derbyshire in 1991. The company is a specialist in designing, building and maintaining fairground equipment. The centre car was fitted with a diesel engine and the train could carry up to 56 passengers - about half of them standing. 

The Pier was opened in 1863 and after a major refurbishment in 1991 the tram was installed to offer the promenaders and theatre goers a save alternative to walking (the wooden boarding on the pier can be difficult to negotiate in bad weather). 

The Blackpool North Pier Tramway was the first entirely new pier railway built in Britain for over eighty years (in 2005 the Southport Pier tram was inaugurated). The driver collected the fares and was also responsible for the correct operation of the concertina doors (2 per car and all fitted to the north side). The line was so short that most visitors to the pier walked anyway (avoiding the fare)...