Starlight Halloween

On Friday it was my last duty of what has been a long season.
I had finally secured the chance to drive in the dark. An experience I was really looking forward to.

When i arrived however, I was told things had been altered and as I was the only one qualified to drive every tram in service I had been moved to do reliefs and then finish early. Not Happy.

First tram was Leeds 180.



Then 345



And then 812



I had said when I was being briefed that I didn't want to drive 812. I cannot see properly and have to stoop to drive which badly effects my back. When we reached Glory Mine my back was playing up. Neil, my conductor, phoned through to explain and duties were altered, back to how they had been originally so i had my own tram.
It turned out to be Blackpool 40.



As the clocks have already changed it got dark earlier.





I did lots of trips and even got to drive 236 in the dark.



I still ended up being last away even though I wasn't last tram. We had to run North wrong line to avoid the Fire Engine that was attending the false alarm. An interesting day.