{"id":23021,"date":"2018-07-18T18:26:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T17:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=23021"},"modified":"2018-07-18T18:26:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T17:26:22","slug":"in-preview-tramtastic-day-out-at-heaton-park-tramway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=23021","title":{"rendered":"In Preview: Tramtastic Day Out at Heaton Park Tramway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 22nd July will be a Tramtastic Day Out if you happen to go to the Heaton Park Tramway with <strong>Blackpool Brush 623<\/strong> due to return to service following its return from a year long loan spell in Blackpool. But that isn\u2019t all that is planned for the day with three trams in service plus several trams will be on display \u2013 including <strong>Blackpool Replica Vanguard 619<\/strong> and <strong>Stockport 5<\/strong> as their respective overhauls continue.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The day will start at 1100 with current service stalwarts <strong>Hull 96<\/strong> and <strong>Manchester 765<\/strong> in action before they are joined by Blackpool 623 from 1200. This will be the first passenger use of <strong>623<\/strong> at Heaton Park since its return from a loan spell in Blackpool and it is very much a welcome return for the tram which will help to take some of the pressure off <strong>96<\/strong> and <strong>765<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The three tram service will continue until 1700 when <strong>96<\/strong> and <strong>765<\/strong> will come out of service allowing <strong>623<\/strong> the use of the whole tramway until the event ends at 1730.<\/p>\n<p>Away from the operational trams <strong>Manchester 173<\/strong> will be displayed at the Middleton Road stub \u2013 allowing for shots of the tram alongside the operational cars as they pass whilst the scene outside Lakeside Depot will be a busy one! <strong>Blackpool Railgrinder 752<\/strong> will be displayed here along with <strong>Blackpool Replica Vanguard 619<\/strong> and <strong>Stockport 5<\/strong>. The latter two trams are continuing to see major attention in the Heaton Park workshop and although they aren\u2019t ready for a return just yet they will be available for display so you can see the latest progress on their continued works.<\/p>\n<p>The day will also see a suffragette re-enactment at 1400 before a procession starts at 1500. This will be re-enacting an event which took place 100 years ago in Heaton Park where there was a demonstration demanding votes for women.<\/p>\n<p>Tramtastic Day Out is the main enthusiast based event for 2018 at Heaton Park and looks set to be a day not to be missed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 22nd July will be a Tramtastic Day Out if you happen to go to the Heaton Park Tramway with Blackpool Brush 623 due to return to service following its return from a year long loan spell in Blackpool. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=23021\">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":[47,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23021"}],"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=23021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23045,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23021\/revisions\/23045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}