{"id":43894,"date":"2022-02-17T18:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43894"},"modified":"2022-02-18T16:45:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T16:45:05","slug":"tram-output-announced-for-blackpools-february-vintage-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43894","title":{"rendered":"Tram output announced for Blackpool\u2019s February Vintage Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first tram event of 2022 is nearly upon us \u2013 as is the second major storm of the week! \u2013 and Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours have now announced their planned tram output which should see eight different trams in service over the weekend \u2013 including the return to service of <strong>Centenary 648<\/strong> for the first time since 2020. With the Vintage Weekend kicking off on the evening of Friday 18<sup>th<\/sup> February with a special tour using the <strong>Western Train,<\/strong> the two days of the weekend will then see a six tram hop-on, hop-off timetable running alongside further Western Train Evening Tours and also bus tours and depot tours.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The planned tram output \u2013 subject to the usual caveats and with the weather forecast looking less than favourable alternative trams are shown for those which would prefer nice weather! \u2013 is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday 18<sup>th<\/sup> February<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Evening Tour scheduled has been postponed with the tramway completely suspended. It will run at 1740 on Saturday 19th February instead<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday 19<sup>th<\/sup> February<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Daytime Tours (please note alternative trams are running as tram &#8220;D&#8221; and &#8220;E&#8221; due to the weather forecast with Brush 621 and Balloon 715 replacing Boat 600 and Bolton 66 respectively):<\/p>\n<p>A \u2013 Balloon 717, B \u2013 Brush 631, C \u2013 Rebuilt Balloon 718, D \u2013 Brush 621, E \u2013 Balloon 715, F \u2013 Centenary 648<\/p>\n<p>Evening Tour \u2013 Western Train<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday 20<sup>th<\/sup> February<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Daytime Tours:<\/p>\n<p>A \u2013 Rebuilt Balloon 707, B \u2013 Brush 631, C \u2013 Balloon 700, D \u2013 Bolton 66 (Balloon 715), E \u2013 Boat 600 (Brush 621), F \u2013 Centenary 648<\/p>\n<p>Evening Tour \u2013 Western Train<\/p>\n<p>Daytime tours will be running to a timetable and for those not used to this hop-on, hop-off tours in Blackpool this timetable shows which tram will be allocated to which service (just match the letter to the service). The timetable can be viewed online at <a href=\"https:\/\/pdfhost.io\/v\/M4bdBVIKB_event_timetable_feb_21\">https:\/\/pdfhost.io\/v\/M4bdBVIKB_event_timetable_feb_21<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget as well as these hop-on, hop-off tours there are depot tours at Rigby Road (1100 and 1300 both days), Fleetwood Bus Tours (1030 both days) as well as Evening Tours (1900 Friday and Saturday, 1700 on Sunday \u2013 the Sunday tour runs to Starr Gate). To see a complete list of what is going on head to the Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours website at <a href=\"https:\/\/blackpoolheritage.com\/tours\/february-vintage-weekend\/\">https:\/\/blackpoolheritage.com\/tours\/february-vintage-weekend\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first tram event of 2022 is nearly upon us \u2013 as is the second major storm of the week! \u2013 and Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours have now announced their planned tram output which should see eight different trams in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43894\">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\/43894"}],"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=43894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43912,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43894\/revisions\/43912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}