Blackpool boat tram. Car 228 (603) in San Francisco
YouTube name: fred collins.
Language: English.
Date: October 8, 2007.
City: San Francisco (United States).
The video shows
San Francisco Railway Museum
Open regularly
San Francisco F-Market & Wharves: Beach & Jones - 17th & Castro
Operational
San Francisco railcar 228 (ex Blackpool railcar 228), type Open Boats, signed Special.
San Francisco railcar 1010, manufacturer Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company, type PCC.
Description
Blackpool Boat car 228 September 2007. Built for Blackpool corporation by English Electric of Preston in 1934. Renumbered 603 in 1968. Replaced car 226 on loan from the California Railway Museum at Rio Vista, leaving the UK in 1985. This was 228's second trip to the USA as it was used in Philadelphia (as 603) during the Bicentennial leaving Blackpool in 1976 and returning in 1978.