Although the weather on saturday morning was nothing exceptional just a reasonably strong wind a sudden gust lifted several roof sheets from over the engineering bay and office side of the depot.
Blackpool tram station roof blown off.
The met office issued a red weather warning with hurricane force 12 winds which was downgraded to an amber warning at 21 00 gmt.
It is the second oldest electric tramway in the united kingdom the first.
The blackpool tramway runs from blackpool to fleetwood on the fylde coast in lancashire england the line dates back to 1885 and is one of the oldest electric tramways in the world.
It carried 4 8 million passengers in the 2019 20 financial year.
The north fylde running day saw the following routes being operated out of cleveleys bus station 91 cleveleys to stanah 92 cleveleys to poulton and 186 cleveleys to fleetwood ferry.
It is operated by blackpool transport bt and runs for 11 miles 18 km.
Image taken on 14 september 1957 shortly afterwards it was shipped off to the seashore trolley museum in kennebunkport maine usa.
Nail biting footage captures the parents leaping frantically onto the road in blackpool to scoop up the child blown off a blackpool footpath by storm ciara.
As of 2017 it has remained there at the back of a shed and in a poor condition.
Eastcroydon tram tfl tfl stormcaira pic.
London trams added in a tweet.
In addition to the former ribble routes blackpool pd3 number 529 ran from cleveleys to bispham on route 22 returning as route 9 back to cleveleys.
Under one of the categories about infrastructure and transport there are some very exciting proposals such as connecting trams to the railway introducing park and ride schemes and improving connectivity.
Clearing up operations began in blackpool the same day.
After this time the service will run every 60 minutes from blackpool north station between 19 33 and 22 33 diverting away from the promenade between blackpool north and norbreck road.
The last service all the way through from starr gate to fleetwood will be at 19 15 and the last service from fleetwood to starr gate will run at 18 45.
M55 into blackpool delays after a roof was blown off a building.
At reads avenue work continued to remove the wreckage of the defiant whilst a guard was mounted outside the house.
Trams are not stopping eastbound at east croydon station.
Farewell to liverpools trams.
The roof of central railway station had been totally destroyed with the left luggage office and bookstall badly damaged by fire and left strewn with debris from the roof.
Liverpool s last tram no 293 on its final procession through the city centre.
