{"id":49003,"date":"2023-04-05T20:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T19:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49003"},"modified":"2023-04-05T19:55:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T18:55:30","slug":"trams-to-go-on-parade-for-kings-coronation-in-blackpool-tickets-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49003","title":{"rendered":"Trams to go on parade for King\u2019s Coronation in Blackpool \u2013 tickets now available!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second major royal celebration in a row, Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours are to mark the occasion by having a parade of trams. Taking place on Sunday 7<sup>th<\/sup> May, 11 tram will be involved and tickets are available to travel on seven of them now!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The parade is due to depart from Pleasure Beach at 1415 (boarding will be available from 1345) and will then travel north to the Comedy Carpet where they will pause for photographic opportunities and then onto Little Bispham. They will then return south to North Pier before terminating at Pleasure Beach. On the way back passengers will be able to get off at either Bispham, Cabin, North Pier or Pleasure Beach.<\/p>\n<p>The 11 trams due to be included in the parade are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boat 227<\/li>\n<li>Boat 600 (tickets available)<\/li>\n<li>Brush 621 (tickets available)<\/li>\n<li>Railcoach 680<\/li>\n<li>Bolton 66 (tickets available)<\/li>\n<li>Western Train (tickets available)<\/li>\n<li>Trawler (tickets available)<\/li>\n<li>Frigate<\/li>\n<li>Balloon 717 (tickets available)<\/li>\n<li>Balloon 723<\/li>\n<li>Balloon 700 (tickets available)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to the trams an open top bus will run alongside the parade to give a unique viewpoint of what is going on.<\/p>\n<p>A major change to last year\u2019s parade for the Queen\u2019s Jubilee is that this parade will not be free and tickets are available now at <a href=\"https:\/\/blackpoolheritage.com\/kings-coronation-parade\/\">https:\/\/blackpoolheritage.com\/kings-coronation-parade\/<\/a>. The accompanying bus costs \u00a35 for adults and \u00a32.50 for children with those trams which will be available for tickets to be bought costing \u00a310 for adults and \u00a35 for children.<\/p>\n<p>Once the parade is over, between 1600 and 1800 there will be Coronation Specials running between Pleasure Beach and Bispham \u2013 this will also include the return of three additional heritage stops at north of South Pier, Manchester Square and Imperial Hotel. Boat Cars <strong>600<\/strong> and <strong>227<\/strong> will be joined by <strong>Bolton 66<\/strong> and <strong>Balloon 717<\/strong> in running this service. Tickets will be \u00a35 for adults and \u00a32.50 for children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second major royal celebration in a row, Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours are to mark the occasion by having a parade of trams. Taking place on Sunday 7th May, 11 tram will be involved and tickets are available to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49003\">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\/49003"}],"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=49003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49004,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49003\/revisions\/49004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}