Controversial Storyline for Corries 50th - Contains Spoilers

[alan45]

Life on Coronation Street will change forever later this year when a massive explosion rocks The Joinery bar and sends a tram crashing off the viaduct.

In spectacular scenes to mark the soap's 50th anniversary, the dramatic event will cause devastation and heartbreak as the show bids goodbye to some much-loved characters.

Details of who will die and who will suffer injuries are being kept closely under wraps until transmission, as the programme's producers aim to deliver a birthday week full of secrets and surprises.

However, Corrie's cast and crew have now begun filming the milestone episodes - which are to be the most expensive ever made by ITV. Stunt doubles, pyrotechnics specialists, special effects experts and computer-generated imagery are all being used to create what is expected to be the most impressive stunt in the drama's history.

Appearing below, the first behind-the-scenes photos released from filming show the moments preceding and immediately after the explosion - just moments before the tram comes crashing down. One features Jane Danson (Leanne Battersby) and Bill Roache's (Ken Barlow) stunt doubles as they prepare to be thrown to the ground for the explosion scene.

[Dazzle]

I wonder why The Joinery explodes? Poor Nick and Leanne, their new business isn't going to last very long.

[Perdita]

I wonder why The Joinery explodes? Poor Nick and Leanne, their new business isn't going to last very long.

The tram crash is responsible for a lot of properties in Coronation Street to get destroyed

[Dazzle]

The tram crash is responsible for a lot of properties in Coronation Street to get destroyed

It's just that the above makes it sound like an explosion at the Joinery causes the tram crash, not the other way around.

[Perdita]

May Owen is a cowboy builder and it is down to him not doing a proper job that something goes wrong

[Dazzle]

May Owen is a cowboy builder and it is down to him not doing a proper job that something goes wrong

That's a definite possibility.

[alan45]

Its hard to believe that something connected with the Joinery would cause a Tram Crash

[Dazzle]

Life on Coronation Street will change forever later this year when a massive explosion rocks The Joinery bar and sends a tram crashing off the viaduct.

I'm only thinking that because of what it says in the above post.

[alan45]

I'm only thinking that because of what it says in the above post.

True but its hard to believe that some shoddy building work is the cause of the tram crash. Personally i think it might be a gas explosion in the Joinery which causes the explosion and then with the Tram running directly overhead it becomes derailed.

[Dazzle]

That's a likely scenario, yes.