{"id":20762,"date":"2018-02-27T19:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=20762"},"modified":"2018-02-27T19:00:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T19:00:39","slug":"friends-of-40-tour-to-feature-standard-147","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=20762","title":{"rendered":"Friends of 40 tour to feature Standard 147"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Friends of 40 tour in Blackpool will be a bit of departure in 2018 as instead of using <strong>Box 40<\/strong> it is planned to use <strong>Standard 147<\/strong> (subject to the completion of work on tram which includes a full repaint Rigby Road). The tour will take place on Saturday 21st April with tickets now available for \u00a328.50, which includes lunch and a guest speaker.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The tour will start at Rigby Road Depot at 1100 and then runs to Foxhall where <strong>147<\/strong> will use the crossover and head to Pleasure Beach. Following a photostop the tour will run to Fleetwood with possible photostops at North Pier and Cleveleys as it makes it way north. The tour then takes a break for lunch which will be provided at the Vantini Room, North Euston Hotel consisting of Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding with roast potatoes and vegetables followed by Jam Roly-poly and tea or coffee. There will be a guest speaker following lunch. The tour then runs directly back to Rigby Road with an expected departure time of 1500 from Fleetwood.<\/p>\n<p>All inclusive tickets cost \u00a328.50 and can be booked by contacting Steve Palmer on 01253 770 623 or by writing to Steve Palmer, 3 Rossall Lane, Fleetwood, FY7 8JP to request a booking form. Cheques should be made payable to Friends of Forty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Friends of 40 tour in Blackpool will be a bit of departure in 2018 as instead of using Box 40 it is planned to use Standard 147 (subject to the completion of work on tram which includes a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=20762\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20763,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20762\/revisions\/20763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}