It’s a bank holiday weekend and that means only one thing – the Gold heritage tram timetable will be in operation in Blackpool! The six tram service will run on thee days over the weekend: Saturday 20th, Sunday 21st and Sunday 22nd April with the return of the Green timetable and four trams on Friday 19th. A mix of trams will run on each day with seven different types of trams on show and if that’s not enough there is an Easter Treasure Hunt at Pleasure Beach on the Saturday and Sunday!
The standard Gold timetable will run between Saturday 20th and Sunday 22nd April with each of the six trams running through to Fleetwood at least once. For those trams allocated to diagrams A and D they will head to the northern outpost of the tramway twice. The remainder of the day will see a variety of different journeys running north from Pleasure Beach to North Pier/Tower, Cabin, Bispham, Little Bispham, Cleveleys and Thornton Gate.
Subject to the usual availability caveats the following trams are due to run on each day of the Gold timetable:
Saturday 20th April
A – Balloon 717
B – Balloon 715
C – Boat 227
D – Balloon 700
E – Brush 621
F – Boat 600
Sunday 21st April
A – Balloon 700
B – Standard 147
C – Boat 227
D – Balloon 723
E – Balloon 715
F – Boat 600
Monday 22nd April
A – Balloon 701
B – Brush 631
C – Balloon 715
D – Railcoach 680
E – Standard 147
F – Centenary 648
In addition the Tram Shop will be stabled at North Pier/Tower on each day selling lots of tram souvenirs.
The Fleetwood Festival of Transport – Tram Sunday – have also teased that on Monday there will be a big surprise on Balloon 723 encouraging people to take a close look and tell them what you see. Judging by the allocation list above the biggest surprise may be that 723 doesn’t seem to be allocated to service on Monday!