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Blackpool Tramway : Tram Stops : Rigby Road depot

Rigby Road depot is a short distance from the seafront, south of Blackpool town centre, next to Blackpool Transport's offices and bus garage. Access for trams is via a spur off the Promenade tramway via Lytham Road and Hopton Street; there is also a rarely-used single track which runs along Blundell Street and Princess Street to Foxhall Square.

As well as stabling for all operational trams and tramway engineering vehicles, a number of out-of-service trams are stored here. There are also maintenance facilities and a paint shop.

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Overall view of the tramshed

20/06/2005 • 001740

Front of the depot's tramshed

20/06/2005 • 001741

Trams and engineering vehicles lined up in the depot

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Trams and ancillary vehicles at the depot

20/06/2005 • 001743

Rigby Road depot, showing the two lines to and from the Starr Gate-Fleetwood line. On the left is the little-used line via Foxhall; on the right the normal route to the seafront tramline at Manchester Square

20/06/2005 • 001744

Line up of trams over the inspection pits in the depot

20/06/2005 • 001745

Trams in the depot

20/06/2005 • 001746

View across the front of the depot tramshed

20/06/2005 • 001747

Depot workshop

20/06/2005 • 001748

Trams stabled at the depot

20/06/2005 • 001749

Blackpool Transport's offices, next to the depot at Rigby Road. Note the 'Corporation Tramways' sign outside—a reminder that buses weren't always the dominant form of local public transport

20/06/2005 • 001757

Rigby Road depot towards the end of the final day of service of 2007. Within a few hours all the trams had returned here, where they would stay until March 2008

04/11/2007 • 003384

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Blackpool Tramway : Tram Stops : Rigby Road depot

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