{"id":44434,"date":"2022-04-04T20:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T19:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=44434"},"modified":"2022-04-04T13:19:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T12:19:10","slug":"blackpool-to-celebrate-queens-platinum-jubilee-with-tram-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=44434","title":{"rendered":"Blackpool to celebrate Queen\u2019s Platinum Jubilee with tram parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blackpool\u2019s heritage trams are to take centre stage over the Platinum Jubilee weekend with a parade due to take place on Thursday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> June. Described as the \u201clargest tram parade the resort has ever staged\u201d around a dozen trams will be involved running between Pleasure Beach and North Pier.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Full details of the plans for the Parade are to follow but it will feature a selection of the operational heritage trams in the Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours fleet. Its obviously far too early to predict which trams may be involved with several on the road to a return but not yet commissioned for service but it is set to be a spectacular sight as they travel along the Prom!<\/p>\n<p>In the publicity released so far its been described as the largest tram parade ever seen in Blackpool although going back to 1985 there was a 20 tram cavalcade to mark the centenary of the tramway so we must presume they either consider a parade and cavalcade as different things or have forgotten what happened before!<\/p>\n<p>The Platinum Jubilee weekend sees two bank holidays in the UK on Thursday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and Friday 3<sup>rd<\/sup> June and the whole weekend in Blackpool will be a celebration of 70 years of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the throne. As well as the tram parade there will be a giant outdoor picnic, beacon lighting and a fireworks display at the Pleasure Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackpool\u2019s heritage trams are to take centre stage over the Platinum Jubilee weekend with a parade due to take place on Thursday 2nd June. Described as the \u201clargest tram parade the resort has ever staged\u201d around a dozen trams will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=44434\">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\/44434"}],"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=44434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44490,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44434\/revisions\/44490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}