60% profit increase for Blackpool as buses take the strain of declining tram market

LANCASHIRE operator Blackpool Transport Services recorded a 60% increase in operating and pre-tax profits in the 53 weeks ended April 1 2007, according to its annual report.

The company, which operates a network of local bus services throughout the Fylde Coast and runs the famous tramway, remains in local council ownership, and indeed brought the former Fylde Transport operations back into the public sector when it bought that company from its management buyout team in the early...

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