{"id":28778,"date":"2019-07-20T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=28778"},"modified":"2019-07-20T13:47:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T12:47:57","slug":"a-friday-evening-outing-for-the-western-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=28778","title":{"rendered":"A Friday evening outing for the Western Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outside of the illumination season it is usually difficult for the general public to get a ride on an illuminated tram which makes Friday 26th July a pretty rare opportunity to ride the illuminated <strong>Western Train<\/strong> with the tram set to run a round tour from North Pier shortly after 1900.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Running an old school illumination tour route the <strong>Western Train<\/strong> is scheduled to leave North Pier\/Tower at 1900 running north to Cabin (1910), Bispham (1915), Little Bispham (round the loop and then back south), Bispham (1925), Cabin (1930), North Pier\/Tower (1940), Pleasure Beach (1955, round the loop and north) before terminating at North Pier\/Tower at 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Standard heritage round trip tickets will be on sale on the night (\u00a35.50 adults, \u00a33 children) and a special advance purchase family ticket is also available. Heritage Day tickets will also be valid on this trip.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when there has been criticism of the same old events taking place in Blackpool this evening tour is that something a little bit different which will hopefully attract both the general public and enthusiasts to enjoy a daylight tour on the <strong>Western Train<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outside of the illumination season it is usually difficult for the general public to get a ride on an illuminated tram which makes Friday 26th July a pretty rare opportunity to ride the illuminated Western Train with the tram set &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=28778\">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\/28778"}],"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=28778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28808,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28778\/revisions\/28808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}