Box 40 on Driver Training

Box Car 40 heading north past Anchorsholme Park near Little Bispham on driver training duties

On the third day of heritage tram crew training this week, Blackpool & Fleetwood Box Car 40 was the tram selected for use. Box 40 left Rigby Road depot shortly after 0900, and then proceeded to make a driver training run right through to Fleetwood Ferry before returning to Blackpool.

Box Car 40 heads north past the clock tower at Ash Street in Fleetwood

88 years separate the boxy designs of 1914 built tram 40 and 301, Blackpool's first Dennis Trident delivered in 2002

Box 40 at Fleetwood Ferry turning right into Pharos Street to begin its return run to Blackpool

Box Car 40 heading south along North Albert Street in Fleetwood

Box 40 heading back towards Blackpool along Copse Road in Fleetwood