Tram at Fleetwood, Ash Street

Image: © Dr Neil Clifton Taken: 21 Jul 1996

Ash Street is the point at which the street track along Lord Street runs onto the railway-type private track formation which takes the tramway into Blackpool. There has been some half-hearted attempt to re-name the place 'Fisherman's Walk', and this was even added to some of the tram destination screens, but it has never really caught on. Ash Street will also be the northern terminus for the trams until Easter 2012, to allow for the reconstruction of the street track and ferry loop to accommodate the sixteen new European-style articulated trams that will arrive. Also, even when the Fleetwood street track does re-open, cars such as Bolton 66 will not be allowed to use it, not, in fact, will any of Blackpool's existing trams.

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