page_title: Blackpool Tramway
section_title: Track
hierarchical_section_title: Blackpool Tramway / Infrastructure / Track
caption_attribution_description: English: Rigby Road Depot, Blackpool.
context_page_description: 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 is operated by Blackpool Transport and runs for 11 miles. It carried 4.8 million passengers in the 2019/20 financial year.
  It is the second-oldest electric tramway in the United Kingdom, the first being Volk's Electric Railway in Brighton, which opened two years earlier and similarly runs on a reserved track along the seafront. These are also the two surviving first-generation town tramways in the UK, though the majority of services on the line have since 2012 been operated by a fleet of modern Bombardier Flexity 2 trams. A 'heritage service' using the traditional trams operates on Bank Holidays, select weekdays and weekends from January to December, as well as during the Blackpool Illuminations. Excluding museums, it is one of only a few tramways in the world to still use double-deck trams, others including the Hong Kong Tramways and the Alexandria Tram in Egypt.
context_section_description: The track consist of four different types:
  Street running, open to all traffic – along Lord Street and North Albert Street in Fleetwood, and the soon-to-be-opened line to Blackpool North along Talbot Road in the town centre. There is also a stretch in Blackpool from Rigby Road Depot to the Promenade along Hopton Road and Lytham Road used for trams entering and leaving service only. A short stretch on the Promenade in Blackpool behind the Metropole Hotel was previously in this form, but was converted to reserved track during the 2011/12 tramway upgrade.
  Paved reserved track alongside a road, open to pedestrians but not road traffic – along most of the route between Starr Gate and Cabin.
  Reserved ballasted track, open to trams only – from Cabin to Rossall and along Radcliffe Road in Fleetwood.
  Interurban style, not following a road and open to trams only – from Rossall to Radcliffe Road, Fleetwood.
caption: Rigby Road Depot, built in 1935
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