{"id":49268,"date":"2023-04-27T21:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49268"},"modified":"2023-04-27T18:31:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T17:31:30","slug":"tram-output-for-blackpool-may-day-bank-holiday-enhanced-weekend-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49268","title":{"rendered":"Tram output for Blackpool May Day Bank Holiday Enhanced weekend announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The five trams set to run on each day of the Enhanced Weekend of heritage tram operation in Blackpool over the forthcoming May Day Bank Holiday weekend have been confirmed. With a new timetable in operation for the weekend only five trams will be needed on each day instead of the previous six but there will still be plenty of trams out for you to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The trams due to run are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday 29<sup>th <\/sup><\/strong><strong>April<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A \u2013 Balloon 717<\/p>\n<p>B \u2013 Brush 621<\/p>\n<p>C \u2013 Rebuilt Balloon 707<\/p>\n<p>D \u2013 Bolton 66<\/p>\n<p>E \u2013 Boat 227<\/p>\n<p>Evening Tour \u2013 Frigate<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday 30<sup>th<\/sup> April<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A \u2013 Balloon 700<\/p>\n<p>B \u2013 Railcoach 680<\/p>\n<p>C \u2013 Balloon 723<\/p>\n<p>D \u2013 Boat 600<\/p>\n<p>E \u2013 Bolton 66<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday 1<sup>st<\/sup> May<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A \u2013 Boat 227<\/p>\n<p>B \u2013 Balloon 700<\/p>\n<p>C \u2013 Brush 631<\/p>\n<p>D \u2013 Bolton 66<\/p>\n<p>E \u2013 Balloon 713<\/p>\n<p>Evening Tour \u2013 Boat 227<\/p>\n<p>On the Saturday and Sunday with a Model Tram Exhibition taking place at the Solaris Centre heritage trams will be running on New South Promenade to Starr Gate including a temporary stop to give you direct access to the exhibition. The Monday sees trams only running as far south as Pleasure Beach.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned in the first paragraph this is a new enhanced weekend timetable which will run as its reduced the output from six to five trams. This is down to the removal of the hourly Cleveleys\/Thornton Gate trips which were often little used and so they will be concentrating on having more journeys on the Prom with the Boat Cars sure to be popular on these tours.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend also sees Evening Tours on both the Saturday and Monday evenings. The Frigate\u2019s tour on Saturday includes a trip down to Starr Gate.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full details of what is planned over the weekend plus ticket prices available on the Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours website at <a href=\"https:\/\/blackpoolheritage.com\/enhanced-weekends-2023\/\">https:\/\/blackpoolheritage.com\/enhanced-weekends-2023\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The five trams set to run on each day of the Enhanced Weekend of heritage tram operation in Blackpool over the forthcoming May Day Bank Holiday weekend have been confirmed. With a new timetable in operation for the weekend only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49268\">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\/49268"}],"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=49268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49269,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49268\/revisions\/49269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}