The Blackpool Balloon II - 30th January 2022

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Cumulative track coverage by our Nov 2016, Jan 2019 & Jan 2022 tours.<br>[© Martin Brailsford 2022]	Track covered on our Blackpool Balloon II tour.<br>[&copy; Martin Brailsford 2022]	North Pier heritage tram stop, the connecting tram for our tour waits in the loop.<br>[&copy; Ian Mortimer 2022]	A fitting place to join our tour (Rigby Road Depot Fitting Shop Road) second from the right, facing with glasses, is your Website Officer, Phil Wieland.<br>[&copy; Ian Mortimer 2022]	The other side of the tram in the same location, pantograph down.<br>[&copy; Ian Mortimer 2022]	One type of unusual motive power used on the tour.<br>[&copy; Duncan Finch 2022]	The other type of unusual motive power used on the tour..<br>[&copy; Ian Mortimer 2022]
Trams 700 and 707 ready to depart from Rigby Road.<br>[&copy; Ian Mortimer 2022]	South Pier (taken through tram window), the 'Big One' rollercoaster (the UK's tallest) is closed for maintenance.<br>[&copy; Ian Mortimer 2022]	At Fisherman's Walk crossover - again taken through the windscreen.<br>[&copy; Ian Mortimer 2022]	Thornton Gate middle road looking north towards Fleetwood, which is where that modern tram going.<br>[&copy; Ian Mortimer 2022]	Bispham middle road.<br>[&copy; Ian Mortimer 2022]	The tour trams stabled ECS in Fleetwood loop during the lunch break (the loop was covered throughout after lunch).<br>[© Kev Adlam 2022]	All this travelling and participants had only reached North Euston…<br>[&copy; Rob Moorcroft 2022]
Tram 'A' is on the turning 'circle' at Little Bispham.<br>[&copy; Ian Mortimer 2022]	With Starr Gate tram depot in the background, a modern tram leaves for Fleetwood Ferry passing our tour trams in the depot headshunt.<br>[&copy; Ian Mortimer 2022]	Inside Star Gate Depot, the very reserved Tram 700 is on Road 9, taken from Road 8 (both trams did both lines to the end and the headshunt).<br>[&copy; Ian Mortimer 2022]	Who is following who? The tour trams on the turning circle at Starr Gate, south of the tram stop during a photo stop/break.<br>[&copy; Ian Mortimer 2022]	Rigby Road Depot, unusual motive power and a spider's web of OHLE, looking away from the depot along Hopton Rd.<br>[&copy; Kev Adlam 2022]	More unusual motive power at the depot.<br>[© Kev Adlam 2022]	Some passengers left the tour here to catch a train from Blackpool North.<br>[&copy; Jenny Williamson 2022]