{"id":39052,"date":"2021-04-12T22:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T21:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=39052"},"modified":"2021-04-12T18:23:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T17:23:55","slug":"trams-are-back-at-crich-and-seaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=39052","title":{"rendered":"Trams are back at Crich and Seaton!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ll probably have seen the news headlines today as the queues of people outside non-essential shops as they reopened for the first time since January but that isn\u2019t all that has been able to re-open following the latest relaxation of restrictions \u2013 heritage tramways can also now start to run! And Monday 12<sup>th<\/sup> April saw two heritage lines in England run for the first time this year \u2013 the Crich Tramway Village and Seaton Tramway.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Both lines will be continuing to run with their successful regulations which were put in place last year \u2013 although with small tweaks to improve the \u201ccustomer experience\u201d \u2013 which means it isn\u2019t quite like the old days but at least it means for the first time since trams ran at Heaton Park for Lightopia at the very start of the year, there are heritage trams carrying paying passengers in England!<\/p>\n<p>Going at this alphabetically, three trams were allocated to service at the Crich Tramway Village on the first day \u2013 all stalwarts of the operational fleet over the years. They were <strong>Glasgow 22<\/strong>, <strong>Blackpool 167<\/strong> and <strong>Leeds 399<\/strong> which operated the complete length of line with social distancing measures in place and tram rides having to be booked at admissions subject to availability.<\/p>\n<p>Inside exhibition areas remain closed for now and Rita\u2019s Tearooms are offering a takeaway service only but with attractions such as the Woodland Walk still available there is plenty for the family to see and do!<\/p>\n<p>Outside areas and tram rides are now open at Crich until Sunday 16<sup>th<\/sup> May six days a week with the museum closed on Fridays. From Monday 17<sup>th<\/sup> May to Sunday 20<sup>th<\/sup> June inside exhibition areas will be reopened with the museum still closed on Fridays (except for 4<sup>th<\/sup> June) but there will still be Covid restrictions in place. It is then open Monday 21<sup>st<\/sup> June to Thursday 15<sup>th<\/sup> July (still closed Fridays) with later dates to be confirmed later.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, down at the Seaton Tramway services started operating on the Orange timetable at 1000. Trams run every half hour with Accessible trams due to run at least the 1030, 1230, 1400 and 1600 departures from Seaton (1130, 1330, 1500 and 1700 return from Colyton) \u2013 other accessible trams may run on other services as well. Trams <strong>9<\/strong>, <strong>10<\/strong>, <strong>11<\/strong> and <strong>12<\/strong> were scheduled to run on the first day although it appears 8 also made it to the Seaton terminus so may have run on the first day as well or instead of one of the above.<\/p>\n<p>Services will now be running on the Seaton Tramway every day until 31<sup>st<\/sup> October. A number of different coloured timetables will run and you can find all the details at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tram.co.uk\/timetables\">https:\/\/www.tram.co.uk\/timetables<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heritage trams are back \u2013 we\u2019ll just ignore how cold it has become and enjoy that fact!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ll probably have seen the news headlines today as the queues of people outside non-essential shops as they reopened for the first time since January but that isn\u2019t all that has been able to re-open following the latest relaxation of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=39052\">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":[8,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39052"}],"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=39052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39053,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39052\/revisions\/39053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}