{"id":50552,"date":"2023-08-07T20:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50552"},"modified":"2023-08-13T10:01:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T09:01:39","slug":"wirral-bus-tram-show-to-be-retitled-for-2023-with-no-trams-able-to-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50552","title":{"rendered":"Wirral Bus &#038; Tram Show to be retitled for 2023 with no trams able to run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traditionally the first Sunday of October sees the Wirral Bus &amp; Tram Show take place around the Wirral Heritage Tramway with trams running alongside a selection of heritage buses, many from the collection housed at the Wirral Transport Museum at Transport Museum. However, it has been confirmed that the show in its usual format will not be able to take place in 2023 because of works needed at the Museum as well as on the tramway. All is not lost for transport enthusiasts though as its been announced that an alternative event will be taking place on Sunday 1<sup>st<\/sup> October to be titled the Wirral Transport Show.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As we\u2019ve reported before the Wirral Heritage Tramway and Museum was closed from mid-April. The tramway was initially closed ahead of an ORR inspection and work needed for that with the Museum following a couple of days later. At the time Wirral Council said that it was temporary but the closure has remained in place and it now looks as if there will be no reopening until the transfer of ownership to Big Heritage from the Council. This is due to happen by October.<\/p>\n<p>To add to the issues preventing a reopening the Museum itself will be closed to all volunteers for around 6 weeks from 1<sup>St <\/sup>September to allow a refurbishment to take place. Even without this museum closure it will not be possible for trams to run because of a \u201chealth and safety backlog\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing the popularity of the Bus &amp; Tram Show it has been decided to still run an event on 1<sup>st<\/sup> October although this will be a different style of event centred on the Pacific Road building. To be known as the Wirral Transport Show there will also be additional vehicle displays at Taylor Street and Woodside with a free bus service linking the three sites. This is similar to an event held in 2021 which included outdoor trade stalls at Taylor Street but this time access to Pacific Road means these can be held undercover. There will also be refreshments provided by the 201 Bus Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditionally the first Sunday of October sees the Wirral Bus &amp; Tram Show take place around the Wirral Heritage Tramway with trams running alongside a selection of heritage buses, many from the collection housed at the Wirral Transport Museum at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50552\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50552"}],"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=50552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50553,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50552\/revisions\/50553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}