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Saturday 26th June to Sunday 27th June Totally Transport Weekend: Centre piece of the weekend is the annual Totally Transport festival on New South Promenade. Vintage trams, classic buses, coaches and cars plus family entertainment all feature on Sunday 27th. The Saturday will feature enthusiast tram events  www.totallytransport.info

Thursday 23rd to Wednesday 29th September Anniversary Week: A packed week of events to mark the 125th anniversary. Starting with a Welcome Evening on the Thursday and Enthusiast events on the Friday, an intensive service of Vintage Trams will run on both Saturday and Sunday. Sunday will also see an open day at Blackpool Transport's 75 year old Rigby Road Tram Depot and the adjacent bus depot and workshops. Monday and Tuesday will see further enthusiast events with the week finishing with a parade of Blackpool Trams and an anniversary dinner on the Wednesday. See the Anniversary Week page for more details.
 
Blackpool Themed events elsewhere in the UK:
Thursday 15th  to Sunday 18th April: Beamish Museum. Power from the Past event, including Blackpool Marton Box car 31.
Sunday 29th  and Monday 30th August: Crich Tramway Village Blackpool Bank Holiday Extravaganza: Celebrating 125 years of Blackpool trams. Plus an extravaganza of vintage vehicles including sports cars, buses, motorbikes and lorries.
Sunday 21st November Heaton Park Tramway (Manchester) "Celebration of Blackpool's Trams and Transport" featuring visiting 'Vanguard' 619 and a special one off visit from another Blackpool tram! Vintage buses operating from LTT collection.
 

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2010 is the 125th anniversary of Blackpool's famous electric trams - one of the very first in the world and the first in the UK. Various events will take place during the year, including the showpiece Anniversary Week in 23 to 29 September.

On this website you can find out about:

  • Tramway Events on the Fylde during 2010
  • The 125th Anniversary Week of Events
  • A brief history of the Blackpool Tramway
  • Profiles of the Vintage Trams expected to operate in 2010
  • Event partners
  • The tram driving experience.
The 125th anniversary events are organised by Blackpool Transport and its partners - see here for the organisations involved.