Once again another weekend of enhanced heritage tram activity in Blackpool is almost here, with the Spring Bank Holiday weekend providing the perfect excuse for three days of the excellent ‘Gold’ service to be in operation. As with the May Day Bank Holiday weekend, each day will see an illuminated tram join the six timetabled cars to give a total of seven trams running daily, each of which will run one trip to Fleetwood.<\/p>\n
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With much of the UK basking in sweltering heat at present it is unfortunate that just one open car, Boat 600<\/strong>, is currently serviceable and that is expected to run on all three days of the extended weekend. However despite this, a good selection of trams are still expected to appear in service, including Rebuilt Balloon 718 <\/strong>which will be re-launched with a series of special evening trips on Friday 26th May, before it joins its more traditional looking sisters on heritage tours on the following three days.<\/p>\n The full planned heritage tram output for the weekend ahead is as follows.<\/p>\n Saturday 27th May<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n A – Balloon 715<\/p>\n B – Bolton 66<\/p>\n C – Rebuilt Balloon 718<\/p>\n D – Boat 600<\/p>\n E – Brush 631<\/p>\n F – Balloon 701<\/p>\n G – Frigate 736<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sunday 28th May<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n A – Balloon 723<\/p>\n B – Boat 600<\/p>\n C – Rebuilt Balloon 718<\/p>\n D – Fleetwood Box 40<\/p>\n E – Balloon 715<\/p>\n F – Brush 631<\/p>\n G – Western Train 733+734<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Monday 29th May<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n A – Balloon 717<\/p>\n B – Railcoach 680<\/p>\n C – Rebuilt Balloon 718<\/p>\n D – Boat 600<\/p>\n E – Centenary 648<\/p>\n F – Balloon 701<\/p>\n G – Frigate 736<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A mobile shop selling heritage tram souvenirs will be on board car 718 <\/strong>which is working on Duty ‘C’ on all three days. As ever, all advertised services and vehicles are subject to availability and may be changed due to unforseen circumstances.<\/p>\n British Trams Online <\/em>will be present for this event and we should be providing ‘live’ coverage on our Facebook page across the weekend.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Once again another weekend of enhanced heritage tram activity in Blackpool is almost here, with the Spring Bank Holiday weekend providing the perfect excuse for three days of the excellent ‘Gold’ service to be in operation. As with the May … Continue reading