{"id":31072,"date":"2019-11-20T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31072"},"modified":"2019-11-20T17:49:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:49:28","slug":"in-preview-blackpool-winter-gold-%e2%80%93-23rd-24th-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31072","title":{"rendered":"In Preview: Blackpool Winter Gold \u2013 23rd &#038; 24th November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be November and we may be turning our thoughts to Christmas (and the inevitable Santa Specials at various tramways across the country) but before then the Heritage Tram Tour team at Blackpool haven\u2019t finished for the year yet with the final intensive Gold weekend of 2019 taking place on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th November. As with all Winter Gold weekends the timetable sees trams running all the way from Starr Gate to Fleetwood and to add a bit of interest for anyone in Blackpool the night before, the <strong>Western Train<\/strong> will be running a couple of trips to Fleetwood on Friday 22nd November too.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Friday 22nd November<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Western Train<\/strong> will be out on the tracks for nearly four hours departing on its first trip north from North Pier\/Tower at 1710 from where it will run to Fleetwood (a 1750, d 1800), Pleasure Beach (a 1845, d 1855), Fleetwood again (a 1950, d 2000), Pleasure Beach (a 2045, d 2047) before terminating at North Pier Tower at 2100.<\/p>\n<p>Standard heritage fares will apply with Heritage Day Travelcards valid at \u00a311 for adults and round trip tickets available at \u00a35.50 for adults (\u00a33 child).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Saturday 23rd &amp; Sunday 24th November<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A standard six tram, approximately 15 minute frequency Gold service will run on both days of the weekend. Instead of the summer Gold timetable which runs exclusively from Pleasure Beach the less frequent winter Flexity service means it is possible for most heritage services to run to and from Starr Gate. All six trams will run between Starr Gate and Fleetwood at least once with those trams allocated as \u201cB\u201d and \u201cD\u201d getting to do two trips.<\/p>\n<p>The two days will see six different trams running on each day meaning there should be \u2013 subject to the usual availability and operational constraints \u2013 12 different trams in service representing five different classes of tram.<\/p>\n<p>Planned trams are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday 23rd:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A \u2013 Balloon 715<\/p>\n<p>B \u2013 Balloon 717<\/p>\n<p>C \u2013 Brush 631<\/p>\n<p>D \u2013 Standard 147<\/p>\n<p>E \u2013 Balloon 713<\/p>\n<p>F \u2013 Centenary 648<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday 24th:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A \u2013 Centenary 642<\/p>\n<p>B \u2013 Balloon 723<\/p>\n<p>C \u2013 Railcoach 680<\/p>\n<p>D \u2013 Balloon 718<\/p>\n<p>E \u2013 Brush 621<\/p>\n<p>F \u2013 Balloon 701<\/p>\n<p>An extra tram will also be out on the mainline on each day, as the Tram Shop will be back at North Pier\/Tower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be November and we may be turning our thoughts to Christmas (and the inevitable Santa Specials at various tramways across the country) but before then the Heritage Tram Tour team at Blackpool haven\u2019t finished for the year yet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31072\">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":[7,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31072"}],"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=31072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31078,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31072\/revisions\/31078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}