{"id":31247,"date":"2019-12-01T08:47:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T08:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31247"},"modified":"2019-12-01T08:47:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T08:47:39","slug":"tram-of-the-year-2019-%e2%80%93-voting-is-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31247","title":{"rendered":"Tram of the Year 2019 \u2013 Voting is now open!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the last week of nominations we ca now announce that voting for the British Trams Online Tram of the Year 2019 is now open! You can vote once in each category (multiple votes will be removed) between now and Saturday 11th January 2020 \u2013 but what has made the final shortlist in each of the categories? Read on to find out!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The final shortlists are as follows\u2026<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Tram (Traditional) of the Year<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Blackpool &amp; Fleetwood Box 40<\/p>\n<p>Cambridge Street Tramways 7<\/p>\n<p>Manchester 765<\/p>\n<p>Manx Electric Railway 54<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Tram (Modern) of the Year<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Blackpool 001<\/p>\n<p>Manchester Metrolink 3006<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Metro 28<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Tramway of the Year<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Edinburgh Trams<\/p>\n<p>Heaton Park Tramway<\/p>\n<p>Manchester Metrolink<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Event of the Year<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Blackpool \u2013 Depot Open Day<\/p>\n<p>Crich \u2013 Crich 60<\/p>\n<p>Manx Heritage Transport Festival<\/p>\n<p>Wirral Bus and Tram Show<\/p>\n<p>How can I vote, I hear you ask? Well, its very simple just head to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/tramofyear.html\">Tram of the Year page<\/a> where not only can you submit your vote but you can also read why each nominee has made the final shortlist. Just remember the contest is just for fun and it is only one vote per person with multiple votes being discarded before the winners are announced (in multiple votes the first selections will count only).<\/p>\n<p>You can vote from now until <strong>Saturday 11th January 2020<\/strong> \u2013 use your vote wisely!<\/p>\n<p>* An appeal as well. We usually like to feature the nominees of the Tram (Traditional) of the Year on our front page but currently don&#8217;t have photos of either <strong>Cambridge 7<\/strong> or <strong>Manx Electric Railway 54<\/strong> to do so &#8211; if anyone can help with a new photo of either please let us know through the usual channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the last week of nominations we ca now announce that voting for the British Trams Online Tram of the Year 2019 is now open! You can vote once in each category (multiple votes will be removed) between now and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31247\">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":[50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31247"}],"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=31247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31251,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31247\/revisions\/31251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}