{"id":49618,"date":"2023-05-25T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49618"},"modified":"2023-05-25T17:48:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T16:48:08","slug":"planned-output-announced-for-next-blackpool-enhanced-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49618","title":{"rendered":"Planned output announced for next Blackpool Enhanced Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spring Bank Holiday Weekend (Saturday 27<sup>th<\/sup> to Monday 29<sup>th<\/sup> May) sees the next Enhanced Weekend of operation for Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours. Originally billed as an \u201cEvent Weekend\u201d this has now been changed to an \u201cEnhanced Weekend\u201d (although there isn\u2019t much difference between the two except for more themed events which still take place on an Enhanced Weekend anyway) and will see five heritage trams in service on each day on the revised hop-on, hop-off timetable.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As well as the hop-on, hop-off timetable (first departure from North Pier &amp; Tower at 0955 to Thornton Gate which is now the only trip terminating at Cleveleys or Thornton Gate on the timetable with the final tram back at North Pier &amp; Tower at 1753) there will be evening tours on the Saturday and Monday. The evening tours will be the preserve of the illuminated trams with the <strong>Western Train<\/strong> on the Saturday and <strong>Frigate<\/strong> on Monday. The Saturday evening tour runs North Pier-Little Bispham-Pleasure Beach-North Pier and on Monday it will be North Pier-Fleetwood-North Pier.<\/p>\n<p>The planned output (with all the usual caveats involved):<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday 27<sup>th<\/sup> May<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A \u2013 Boat 227<\/p>\n<p>B \u2013 Balloon 700<\/p>\n<p>C \u2013 Brush 621<\/p>\n<p>D \u2013 Bolton 66<\/p>\n<p>E \u2013 Balloon 717<\/p>\n<p>Evening \u2013 Western Train<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday 28<sup>th<\/sup> May<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A \u2013 Bolton 66<\/p>\n<p>B \u2013 Balloon 717<\/p>\n<p>C \u2013 Railcoach 680<\/p>\n<p>D \u2013 Boat 227<\/p>\n<p>E \u2013 Rebuilt Balloon 707<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday 29<sup>th<\/sup> May<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A \u2013 Boat 600<\/p>\n<p>B \u2013 Balloon 723<\/p>\n<p>C \u2013 Brush 631<\/p>\n<p>D \u2013 Bolton 66<\/p>\n<p>E \u2013 Balloon 700<\/p>\n<p>Evening \u2013 Frigate<\/p>\n<p>Full details of the timetable, pre-bookable tours and fares are on the Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours website at <a href=\"https:\/\/blackpoolheritage.com\/enhanced-weekends-2023\/\">https:\/\/blackpoolheritage.com\/enhanced-weekends-2023\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spring Bank Holiday Weekend (Saturday 27th to Monday 29th May) sees the next Enhanced Weekend of operation for Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours. Originally billed as an \u201cEvent Weekend\u201d this has now been changed to an \u201cEnhanced Weekend\u201d (although there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49618\">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\/49618"}],"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=49618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49619,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49618\/revisions\/49619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}