Blackpool's trams will stop running for five months on Monday - and could disappear from the seafront for good - reports the Manchester Evening News.
The 11-mile-long line will be shut until Easter for an £11m programme of essential maintenance.
But the resort's transport chief has warned that if it doesn't get another £66m in funding from the government for a complete upgrade of the tracks and trams, the famous machines could stop running for good.
The first tram appeared in the resort in 1885 and they run every day apart from December 25 and 26 and January 1.
Blackpool Transport managing director Steve Burd said: "If we fail to get the money then there is a chance that the trams could stop running in Blackpool."
The council hopes transport minister Tom Harris will make a decision by Christmas.
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