{"id":37486,"date":"2021-02-03T22:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=37486"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:54:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T16:54:34","slug":"trackworks-to-see-service-changes-for-blackpool-tramway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=37486","title":{"rendered":"Trackworks to see service changes for Blackpool Tramway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be major changes to the service on the Blackpool Tramway for two weeks starting on Sunday 14<sup>th<\/sup> February \u2013 including a week without any service at all. These works have been planned for a while and are described as essential. Although there has been some work undertaken since the tramway was upgraded (opening in 2012) this will be the most major work since that time.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The works will be split into two parts:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday 14<sup>th<\/sup> February to Saturday 20<sup>th<\/sup> February<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No trams will run across the whole tramway with passengers asked to use the adjacent no. 1 bus service instead (this will run at an increased frequency with a flat far of \u00a31.90 in place)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday 21<sup>st<\/sup> February to Saturday 27<sup>th<\/sup> February<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trams will run between Harrow Place (the first stop after the Starr Gate terminus allowing trams to come directly out of depot and into service) and Cabin only. The increased frequency no. 1 bus will continue to operate.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the trackworks, Blackpool Transport have recently announced they have started an internal refurbishment of the Flexity2 trams which had started to become tired after extensive use. It would appear the internal refurbishment is like for like with no major changes anticipated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be major changes to the service on the Blackpool Tramway for two weeks starting on Sunday 14th February \u2013 including a week without any service at all. These works have been planned for a while and are described &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=37486\">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\/37486"}],"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=37486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37487,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37486\/revisions\/37487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}