{"id":36650,"date":"2020-12-06T08:23:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T08:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=36650"},"modified":"2020-12-06T08:23:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T08:23:37","slug":"tram-of-the-year-2020-voting-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=36650","title":{"rendered":"Tram of the Year 2020 voting now open!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can now register your votes for the British Trams Online Tram of the Year 2020 with the final shortlist now announced in all four categories: Tram (Traditional), Tram (Modern), Tramway and Event of the Year. Some years it is difficult to come up with the shortlists because so much has happened whereas other years it\u2019s a struggle because not much has \u2013 and 2020 probably comes into the latter! But despite that we think there is a good varied selection of trams, tramways and events you can vote for.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You can register your votes by visiting the dedicated Tram of the Year page at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/tramofyear.html\">http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/tramofyear.html<\/a> which also gives full details of why each nominee has made the shortlist (although its probably pretty obvious in most cases!). Please remember its one vote per person and any duplicate votes will be removed before the results are announced. And the most important thing is this is just for fun!<\/p>\n<p>Voting will remain open until 1000 on Saturday 9<sup>th<\/sup> January 2021 (the second Saturday in January) with the results announced on the morning of Sunday 10<sup>th<\/sup> January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>To the most important thing \u2013 the shortlists!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tram (Traditional) of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blackpool Modified Balloon 707<\/li>\n<li>Blackpool Illuminated Frigate 736<\/li>\n<li>Seaton 4<\/li>\n<li>Stockport 5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tram (Modern) of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manchester Metrolink 3073<\/li>\n<li>West Midlands Metro 36<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tramway of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manchester Metrolink<\/li>\n<li>Seaton Tramway<\/li>\n<li>West Midlands Metro<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Event of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blackpool Tramway \u2013 135<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary weekend<\/li>\n<li>Isle of Man \u2013 Rush Hour on the Railways virtual event<\/li>\n<li>Seaton Tramway \u2013 50<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary Event<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You now know the nominees so now its time to vote! Don\u2019t forget the only way you can do that is by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/tramofyear.html\">http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/tramofyear.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Happy voting and may the best tram\/tramway\/event win!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can now register your votes for the British Trams Online Tram of the Year 2020 with the final shortlist now announced in all four categories: Tram (Traditional), Tram (Modern), Tramway and Event of the Year. Some years it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=36650\">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":[7,14,17,26,21,50,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36650"}],"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=36650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36651,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36650\/revisions\/36651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}