{"id":215,"date":"2012-03-21T20:56:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T20:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=215"},"modified":"2012-03-21T20:56:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T20:56:43","slug":"tram-driving-experience-up-for-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Tram driving experience up for auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an imaginative move to try and raise extra money to fund the construction of a new<br \/>\ntram depot in which to house their growing collection of trams, the Heaton Park Tramway have turned to the popular Internet auction site eBay. A \u2018Tram Driving Experience\u2019 course on <strong>Blackpool Brush car 623<\/strong> is being offered for sale, with a starting price of \u00a3110 being set.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As <strong>623 <\/strong>only entered service at Heaton Park last weekend, the lucky winner may well<br \/>\nbecome the first member of the public to drive it there. The winning bidder will be able to spend a whole day at the park driving this superb car, and refreshments will also be provided. Of course <strong>623 <\/strong>has been available for members of the public to drive before, as it was used to launch the highly successful driving courses at Blackpool.<\/p>\n<p>The auction has been arranged by the tramway\u2019s Operations &amp; Commercial Manager<br \/>\nJohn Whitehouse. Anyone interested in bidding on a chance to drive 623 at its new home in Manchester should click here for more details: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.co.uk\/itm\/Tram-driving-experience-\/270897421963?_trksid=p4340.m1374&amp;_trkparms=algo%3DPI.WATCH%26its%3DC%252BS%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D5%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D5907527050707006239\">http:\/\/www.ebay.co.uk\/itm\/Tram-driving-experience-\/270897421963?_trksid=p4340.m1374&amp;_trkparms=algo%3DPI.WATCH%26its%3DC%252BS%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D5%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D5907527050707006239<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an imaginative move to try and raise extra money to fund the construction of a new tram depot in which to house their growing collection of trams, the Heaton Park Tramway have turned to the popular Internet auction site &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=215\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}