The last day of trams on Dickson Road -7
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The last day of trams on Dickson Road -7
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 27 Oct 1963
Dickson Road was the last section of traditional street tramway in Blackpool. The terminus outside Blackpool North Station had been the traditional starting point of the route to Fleetwood – formerly the 'Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad'. Here, an illuminated 'standard' double-deck tram is seen at North Station on a special tour organised by the Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society to commemorate the closure. The view also shows the porte cochere of the original Blackpool North Station. This part of the station subsequently gave place to a multi-storey car park http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6158221 , with what had been the more remote platforms for excursion trains being converted to become the current station.
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