Blackpool Tram timetable - a bit weird at night?

[gazthomas]

I am thinking of going to see the lights before they close after next weekend. Accommodation is at a premium so I was thinking of staying in Fleetwood. Why would the last tram from Blackpool Central pier be at 23.28 but the last trams from Fleetwood be at 23.56 and 00.26. I know they probably need to get the trams back from Fleetwood but it seems quite unbalanced. Unless Fleetwood is the place to go at night, which I doubt!

 

[Busaholic]

The last trams from Fleetwood run solely for the purpose of returning them, and the crews, to the depot. If anyone chooses to use them, then that's a bonus. They have to run down that track at much the same speed, so why not in service?

 

[gazthomas]

The last trams from Fleetwood run solely for the purpose of returning them, and the crews, to the depot. If anyone chooses to use them, then that's a bonus. They have to run down that track at much the same speed, so why not in service?

I don't disagree with you, I guess my point was more about how relatively early the last tram from Blackpool was.

 

[Busaholic]

I don't disagree with you, I guess my point was more about how relatively early the last tram from Blackpool was.

Doesn't seem outlandishly early to me, but maybe they could run a bit later during the Illuminations. Is there a later tram to Bispham or wherever?

 

[gazthomas]

Doesn't seem outlandishly early to me, but maybe they could run a bit later during the Illuminations. Is there a later tram to Bispham or wherever?

No, the 23.28 north from Central pier is it.

 

[theblackwatch]

I don't think I'd consider that early - in most places, buses and trains tend to finish around 23.xx unless it's an area which has the luxury of night buses/trains.

 

[pdeaves]

I think the original question was how there could be multiple trams back without a corresponding outward working. Like, do they couple a load together for the outward run and leave them at Fleetwood to return in dribs and drabs? (Obviously not, but how else does one explain it?!)

 

[Busaholic]

I think the original question was how there could be multiple trams back without a corresponding outward working. Like, do they couple a load together for the outward run and leave them at Fleetwood to return in dribs and drabs? (Obviously not, but how else does one explain it?!)

The 23.28 out would be the 00.26 back, I'd assume: the 23.56 back would have been the 22.58 out, there being a half-hourly service to/from Fleetwood at night.

 

[uww11x]

I don't disagree with you, I guess my point was more about how relatively early the last tram from Blackpool was.

No demand for later trams. Also they would struggle to prepare the trams for the next day if they ran later.

 

[uww11x]

22:45 off Starr Gate on a Saturday Arrives 23:43 then Departs 23:56
23:15 off Starr Gate on Saturday Arrives 00:13 then departs 00:26

 

[pdeaves]

The 23.28 out would be the 00.26 back, I'd assume: the 23.56 back would have been the 22.58 out, there being a half-hourly service to/from Fleetwood at night.

Quite right, I made a mess of mental arithmetic and invented an extra hour (the fact that it was clock change weekend is entirely coincidental!).

 

[jopsuk]

is there much "life" in Blackpool after 11pm?

 

[uww11x]

is there much "life" in Blackpool after 11pm?

Booze wise yes. Not much else though lol.

 

[Bletchleyite]

Booze wise yes. Not much else though lol.

And much of it is tourists who will be staying fairly locally and probably not in Fleetwood. And the odd few who do live there and want a night on the lash can get a taxi, it isn't that far.

 

[Mutant Lemming]

The 1973 Blackpool Corporation Transport timetable has the last trams from Fleetwood to Blackpool at 23:59 & 00:24 so little change in 44 years really.