{"id":45862,"date":"2022-07-28T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45862"},"modified":"2022-07-28T17:50:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T16:50:11","slug":"first-details-announced-for-blackpools-august-vintage-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45862","title":{"rendered":"First details announced for Blackpool\u2019s August Vintage Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There can sometimes be the accusation that details of special tram events aren\u2019t released until its too late to make arrangements \u2013 but that\u2019s not the case for Blackpool\u2019s August Bank Holiday Vintage Weekend with the first information already released! The weekend will follow a similar pattern to the other Vintage Weekend\u2019s already seen during 2022 with the same pricing structure also in place.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As well as the return of hop-on, hop-off heritage tours running various journeys from Pleasure Beach to Fleetwood there will also be depot tours, pre-bookable Promenade and Coastal Tours and Evening Tours running as well.<\/p>\n<p>The outline plan of the weekend is as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday 27<sup>th<\/sup> August<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1030 \u2013 Depot Tour<\/p>\n<p>1112 \u2013 Promenade Tour: Open Boat<\/p>\n<p>1136 \u2013 Coastal Tour: Double Decker<\/p>\n<p>1300 \u2013 Promenade Tour: Bolton 66<\/p>\n<p>1412 \u2013 Promenade Tour: Bolton 66<\/p>\n<p>1436 \u2013 Coastal Tour: Frigate<\/p>\n<p>1500 \u2013 Real Ale Tour<\/p>\n<p>1512 \u2013 Promenade Tour: Open Boat<\/p>\n<p>1900 \u2013 Open Top Evening Tour<\/p>\n<p>In addition there will be a timetabled service running. The following trams are scheduled to be used:<\/p>\n<p>Boat 227, Centenary 648, Frigate, Boat 600, Bolton 66, Balloon 700<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday 28<sup>th<\/sup> August<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1100 \u2013 Bus Tour<\/p>\n<p>1112 \u2013 Promenade Tour: Open Boat<\/p>\n<p>1136 \u2013 Coastal Tour: Double Decker<\/p>\n<p>1300 \u2013 Promenade Tour: Open Boat<\/p>\n<p>1412 \u2013 Promenade Tour: Open Boat<\/p>\n<p>1436 \u2013 Coastal Tour: Western Train<\/p>\n<p>1512 \u2013 Promenade Tour: Open Boat<\/p>\n<p>1915 \u2013 Ghost Tour<\/p>\n<p>In addition there will be a timetabled service running. The following trams are scheduled to be used:<\/p>\n<p>Boat 600, Brush 631, Western Train, Bolton 66, Boat 227, Balloon 717<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday 29<sup>th<\/sup> August<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1030 \u2013 Depot Tour<\/p>\n<p>1112 \u2013 Promenade Tour: Open Boat<\/p>\n<p>1136 \u2013 Coastal Tour: Centenary Car<\/p>\n<p>1245 \u2013 Depot Tour<\/p>\n<p>1300 \u2013 Promenade Tour: Bolton 66<\/p>\n<p>1412 \u2013 Promenade Tour: Bolton 66<\/p>\n<p>1436 \u2013 Coastal Tour: Double Decker<\/p>\n<p>1512 \u2013 Promenade Tour: Open Boat<\/p>\n<p>1800 \u2013 Western Train Evening Tour<\/p>\n<p>In addition there will be a timetabled service running. The following trams are scheduled to be used:<\/p>\n<p>Boat 227, Balloon 700, Balloon 723, Boat 600, Bolton 66, Centenary 642<\/p>\n<p>A three-day Event Pass can be booked for \u00a350 which includes 3 day tickets, 1 depot tour, a vintage bus tour to St Annes, 1 evening tour, the Ghost Tour or Real Ale Tour. This also allows for a discounted Fish and Chips Tram Tour on Friday 26<sup>th<\/sup> August. Day unlimited travel tickets at \u00a318 are also available as are individual tour tickets.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, with this information being released more than a month in advance the usual caveats of tram availability are even more important to take note of before being definite a certain tram will be appearing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More details on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blackpoolheritage.com\/tours\/vintage-weekend\/?fbclid=IwAR3r4S6yGvgDudlatTTulG8lfmtrom5Ao1wQKOaprOlzN7d5IFXywfyxpag\">Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours website<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There can sometimes be the accusation that details of special tram events aren\u2019t released until its too late to make arrangements \u2013 but that\u2019s not the case for Blackpool\u2019s August Bank Holiday Vintage Weekend with the first information already released! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45862\">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":[7,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45862"}],"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=45862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45863,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45862\/revisions\/45863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}