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CREDITS and SOURCES of INFORMATION:
 
 
Credits:
My thanks go to everyone who has helped me with the creation of this web site, with both information and images.
Contact:
If you wish to contact Blackburn Transport NET please use the email form on the CONTACTS page
 

 
Thanks for their help and assistance to the following:

Rosemary Thacker - Librarian, National Tramway Museum, Crich, Derbyshire
Michael Morton - Blackburn Transport
Ted Buckley - Blackburn Transport
Micheal Millward - Blackburn Museum
Cotton Town
Staff at Blackburn Reference Library
David Packer
Terry Russell
Stan Letts
Dennis Moran - Conductor and Driver, Blackburn Tramways
Brian Harrison - Painter, Intack Depot
Peter Worden - Blackburn Local Historian
 
Sources of information:

Blackburn Corporation Council Minutes - Blackburn Library
Blackburn Transport Archives - Intack Depot
Lancashire Evening Telegraph
Blackburn Times
Blackburn Weekly Telegraph
Northern Daily Telegraph
Blackburn Herald
Blackburn Express
Transport World - Crich Museum archives
“Tramways of North Lancashire” by J.C.Gillham and W.H.Brett
“Tramways of Accrington” by R.W.Rush
“A Farewell to Blackburn’s Trams” - Blackburn Transport published September 1949
"40 Years of Blackburn Buses" - Blackburn Transport published 1969
“Meeting Blackburn’s Trams” by Ian Yearsley (Modern Tramway - 1966)
“My Fifty Years in Transport” by A.G.Grundy (Transport World - 1944)
“Blackburn and Darwen Tramways” by N.N.Forbes (Modern Tramways - 1942)
“History of Steam Trams” by H.A.Whitcombe
“The British Steam Tram” by J.S.Webb
Crich Museum Archives
Ex-Blackburn Corporation Tramway and Omnibus Employees
Bus Lists On The Web
 

Scale drawings and Intack depot plan by Terry Russell.

Lithograph maps reproduced by kind permission of J.C.Gillam
 
Photographs:

Photographs from authors private collection and from the following photographers:

TRAMS:
David Packer, Ian Yearsley, F.N.T. Lloyd-Jones (courtesy David Packer), R.S.J.Wiseman, John Meredith, C.Carter, J.C.Gillham, J.S.Webb (courtesy Dennis Gill) and W.A.’Cam’ Camwell (courtesy Stan Letts)

BUSES:
Michael Morton, Carl Turner, Phil Wignall, Jason Brewer, Peter Makinson, John Law, John Kaye, Bill Read, Charles Pickup (Courtesy of Alan Parkin), Malcolm Jones, Ian Roberts
 
Photographs of the following are courtesy of the National Tramway Museum, Crich, Derbyshire: H.B.Priestly, R.R.Clark, N.N.Forbes, R.B.Parr, S.L.Smith, S.N.J.White, I.R.Davidson and N.G.Wellings
 
Photographs also from the collections of: Blackburn Transport, Blackburn Library, Lancashire Evening Telegraph, Blackburn Museum, Dennis Moran and Peter Worden