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Passenger Cars - Part I (click here to return to Blackpooltra.ms)

= surviving cars   = surviving cars (rebuilt or renumbered)    = scrapped cars

Fleet Number
from 1968
Fleet Number
before 1968
Class & Builder/Date History
 1-2 Open Top
Starbuck 1885
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- double deck
- converted from conduit operation in 1899
 3
 4
Open top
Lancaster Carriage & Wagon 1885

- double deck
- converted from conduit operation in 1899
- no. 4 became a Works Car in 1912, was restored in 1960 as no. 1, went to the National Tramway Museum, Crich, in 1975 and was restored again in 1985 (converted to battery power)
 5-6 Open top
Lancaster Carriage & Wagon 1885
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- double deck
- converted from conduit operation in 1899
- both became Works Cars in 1919
 7-8 Crossbench open top
Starbuck 1885
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- double deck
- rebuilt in 1895 by Lancaster Carriage & Wagon with closed lower decks
- converted from conduit operation in 1899
 9-10 Crossbench trailer
Lancaster Carriage & Wagon 1885
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- double deck
 92-102 Open top
G.F.Milnes 1891
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- double deck
- converted from conduit operation in 1899
 103
 112
122-212
Marton Vambac
English Electric 1939

(Photo © E. Betts)
- ex Sun Saloon
- no. 11 at the East Anglia Transport Museum, Lowestoft, since 1969 (currently stored)
 11-14 Open top
Lancaster Carriage & Wagon 1895
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- double deck
- converted from conduit operation in 1899
- all received balcony top covers in 1915 but reverted to open top in 1924
 15-16 Dreadnought
Midland Railway Carriage & Wagon 1898
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- double deck
- converted from conduit operation in 1899
 17-26 Dreadnought
Midland Railway Carriage & Wagon 1900
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- double deck
 27-30
 31
 32-41
Marton Box
Midland Railway Carriage & Wagon 1901

- double deck (open top)
- 12 cars received balcony covers in 1910-14
- nos. 27,29-32 were rebuilt by BCT as Balcony Cars in 1917-19 (30-31 later reverted to open-top but received new top covers in 1928)
- no. 31 became Engineering Car 4 in 1934 (later Overhead Line Car 754) and went to the North of England Open Air Museum, Beamish, in 1984 on long-term loan (back in Blackpool for the 1998 Tramroad Centenary since 10th September 1997)
- nos. 33 and 34 became Works Cars 1 and 2 about 1922
- the truck of no. 28 was used for Illuminated Car "Gondola" and that of no. 40 for "Lifeboat"
 282
352,372
Standard
BCT 1927
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- double deck (open balcony)
 332-342 Standard
BCT 1923
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- double deck (open balcony)
 362,412 Standard
BCT 1924-25
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- double deck (open balcony)
- no. 41 was totally enclosed in 1930
 382-392
 402
 422
492
Standard
BCT 1926



- double deck (open balcony)
- nos. 38-39,41 were totally enclosed in 1930
- no. 40 at the National Tramway Museum, Crich, since 1963
- no. 49 at the National Tramway Museum, Crich, since 1962
 42-53 Open top
Hurst Nelson 1902
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- double deck
- all received short top covers by 1915 (which were re-used on the replacement Standard Cars built 1922-29)
 452,472
 482
502,532
Standard
BCT 1928

- double deck
- no. 48 at the Oregon Electric Railway Museum, Brooks/USA, since 1964
- no. 50 totally enclosed in 1930
 512 Standard
BCT 1929
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- double deck (open balcony)
 54-58
 59
 60-61
Dreadnought
Midland Railway Carriage & Wagon 1902

- double deck (open fronts and open top deck)
- no. 59 was recorded as Works Car after withdrawal but it is not known if it ever was used as such
- no. 59 at the National Tramway Museum, Crich, since 1965 (on loan to Blackpool 1982 to 1990)
 62-64 Balcony
UEC 1911
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- double deck
 65-68 Balcony
UEC 1911-12
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- double deck
- no. 68 was an Illuminated Car from 1912-38
 69-92 Toastrack
UEC 1911-14
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- all were given centre gangways in 1936-37
 93-98 Open top
G.F.Milnes 1901
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- double deck
- bought in 1919 ex London United Tramways
 99-100 Standard
BCT 1923
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- double deck (open balcony)
- no. 100 was totally enclosed in 1930
101-141 see "Blackpool & Fleetwood Tramroad"
 142-143
 144
 145
Standard
BCT 1924-25
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- double deck (open balcony)
- no. 143 was totally enclosed in 1930 and later became Overhead Line Car 3
- no. 144 at the Seashore Trolley Museum, Maine/USA since 1955
 146
 147
 148-152
Standard
Hurst Nelson 1924-25

- double deck (open balcony)
- nos. 147,149,150 were totally enclosed in 1940
- no. 147 at Trolleyville USA (Olmstead Falls near Cleveland/Ohio) from 1967 to 2000 but never in service there - this car was then exchanged for Boat car no.606 and was restored for day-to-day use including modern safety/electrical equipment (first official outing was on April 3rd 2002)
 153-155 Standard
BCT 1926
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- double deck (open balcony)
- no. 155 was totally enclosed in 1930
 156-8
 159
 160
Standard
BCT 1927

(Photo © E. Betts)
- double deck (open balcony)
- nos. 158-159 were totally enclosed in 1930 and from 1959-1966 operated as Illuminated Cars
- no. 159 at the East Anglia Transport Museum, Lowestoft, since 1967
- no. 160 was totally enclosed in 1940
 161-162
 163
 164-165
 166
Toastrack
BCT 1927

- all were given centre gangways in 1936-37
- no. 161 became Salt Water Spray Car 7 in 1944 (trailer from 1948)
- no. 163 see Blackpool Belle 731
- nos. 165 and 166 became Television Cars in 1951 and 1953 (renumbered 15 and 17 in 1968)
- no. 166 at the National Tramway Museum, Crich, since 1972
167
 168
 169
 170
 171-173
 174
 175-176
Pantograph
English Electric 1928

- no. 167 became a PW Car in 1954 and went to the National Tramway Museum, Crich, in 1962
- no. 168 see Rocket 732
- no. 170 was PW Car from 1962-65 (see HMS Blackpool 736)
- no. 174 see Santa Fe Trailer 734
 177 Standard
BCT 1929
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- double deck (open balcony)
- totally enclosed in 1940