{"id":50655,"date":"2023-08-16T20:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50655"},"modified":"2023-08-16T19:49:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T18:49:57","slug":"in-pictures-split-service-operates-in-blackpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50655","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Split service operates in Blackpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the big selling points of the Blackpool Tramway is that it runs along the Promenade allowing good views of the sea as you travel along. One of the disadvantages of the Blackpool Tramway is that it runs along the Promenade so that when there are big events it is difficult to maintain a safe service. And so it was over the weekend of Saturday 12<sup>th<\/sup> and Sunday 13<sup>th<\/sup> August that with the Blackpool Airshow taking place trams were not running between Central Pier and North Pier.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Between 1300 and 1800 on both days trams ran Starr Gate-Central Pier (on their return from Central Pier they ran wrong line as far as the crossover at Foxhall where they regained the correct line) and North Pier-Fleetwood. No trams were able to run between Central and North Piers with passengers required to walk to continue their journey. Through tickets could be purchased though all the way between Starr Gate and Fleetwood it was just that a change of trams was required.<\/p>\n<p>Heritage Tram Tours were also impacted by these changes with tours only able to take place in the morning and the afternoon tours not happening. (Although the Saturday evening did see an Evening Tour run as scheduled).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50656\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=50656\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50656\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50656\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50656\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/007-pd-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/007-pd-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/007-pd-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/007-pd-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/007-pd.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">007 waits for departure from the wrong platform at Central Pier with a service to Starr Gate. The crowds who have gathered for the Airshow around the platform area show why it wasn\u2019t possible for a through service to run. (Photograph by Peter Dockerty, 12th August 2023)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the big selling points of the Blackpool Tramway is that it runs along the Promenade allowing good views of the sea as you travel along. One of the disadvantages of the Blackpool Tramway is that it runs along &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50655\">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\/50655"}],"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=50655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50657,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50655\/revisions\/50657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}