Fleet Number
from 1968 |
Fleet Number
before 1968 |
Class
& Builder/Date |
History |
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1-2 |
Open Top
Starbuck 1885 |
photo
wanted - can you help?
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double deck
- converted from conduit operation in 1899 |
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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)
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5-6 |
Open top
Lancaster Carriage & Wagon 1885 |
photo
wanted - can you help?
-
double deck
- converted from conduit operation in 1899
- both became Works Cars in 1919 |
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7-8 |
Crossbench
open top
Starbuck 1885 |
photo
wanted - can you help?
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double deck
- rebuilt in 1895 by Lancaster Carriage & Wagon with closed
lower decks
- converted from conduit operation in 1899 |
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9-10 |
Crossbench
trailer
Lancaster Carriage & Wagon 1885 |
photo
wanted - can you help?
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double deck
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92-102 |
Open top
G.F.Milnes 1891 |
photo
wanted - can you help?
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double deck
- converted from conduit operation in 1899 |
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103
112
122-212 |
Marton Vambac
English Electric 1939 |

(Photo
© E. Betts)
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ex Sun Saloon
- no. 11 at the East Anglia Transport Museum, Lowestoft, since
1969 (currently stored)
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11-14 |
Open top
Lancaster Carriage & Wagon 1895 |
photo
wanted - can you help?
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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 |
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15-16 |
Dreadnought
Midland Railway Carriage & Wagon 1898 |
photo
wanted - can you help?
-
double deck
- converted from conduit operation in 1899 |
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17-26 |
Dreadnought
Midland Railway Carriage & Wagon 1900 |
photo
wanted - can you help?
-
double deck
|
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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" |
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282
352,372 |
Standard
BCT 1927 |
photo
wanted - can you help?
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double deck (open balcony) |
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332-342 |
Standard
BCT 1923 |
photo
wanted - can you help?
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double deck (open balcony) |
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362,412 |
Standard
BCT 1924-25 |
photo
wanted - can you help?
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double deck (open balcony)
- no. 41 was totally enclosed in 1930 |
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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
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42-53 |
Open top
Hurst Nelson 1902 |
photo
wanted - can you help?
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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) |
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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 |
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512 |
Standard
BCT 1929 |
photo
wanted - can you help?
-
double deck (open balcony) |
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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)
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62-64 |
Balcony
UEC 1911 |
photo
wanted - can you help?
-
double deck
|
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65-68 |
Balcony
UEC 1911-12 |
photo
wanted - can you help?
-
double deck
- no. 68 was an Illuminated Car from 1912-38 |
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69-92 |
Toastrack
UEC 1911-14 |
photo
wanted - can you help?
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all were given centre gangways in 1936-37 |
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93-98 |
Open top
G.F.Milnes 1901 |
photo
wanted - can you help?
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double deck
- bought in 1919 ex London United Tramways |
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99-100 |
Standard
BCT 1923 |
photo
wanted - can you help?
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double deck (open balcony)
- no. 100 was totally enclosed in 1930 |
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101-141 see
"Blackpool & Fleetwood Tramroad" |
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142-143
144
145 |
Standard
BCT 1924-25 |
photo
wanted - can you help?
-
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
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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) |
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153-155 |
Standard
BCT 1926 |
photo
wanted - can you help?
-
double deck (open balcony)
- no. 155 was totally enclosed in 1930 |
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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
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161-162
163
164-165
166 |
Toastrack
BCT 1927 |

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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
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167
168
169
170
171-173
174
175-176 |
Pantograph
English Electric 1928 |

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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 |
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177 |
Standard
BCT 1929 |
photo
wanted - can you help?
-
double deck (open balcony)
- totally enclosed in 1940 |