Bombardier Flexity 2 Tram - 011 Arrives in Blackpool (2012)

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Date: March 12, 2012.
City: Blackpool (United Kingdom).

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Blackpool tram line T1: Fleetwood Ferry - Starr Gate
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Bombardier Flexity 2 Tram - 011 Arrives in Blackpool. This video shows the new tram arriving at Starr Gate and being unloaded onto the depot head shunt line. The pantograph is raised, the tram takes power for the first time on UK soil, and it drives off into the depot for commissioning.

Starr Gate → Fleetwood Ferry → Little Bispham → Cleveleys → Central Pier → Pleasure Beach/Sandcastle → North Pier.

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