{"id":53377,"date":"2024-04-25T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T19:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53377"},"modified":"2024-04-25T18:10:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T17:10:22","slug":"solent-sky-tram-event-back-for-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53377","title":{"rendered":"Solent Sky Tram Event back for 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was have been over 75 years since trams last ran in the Hampshire city of Southampton but they are far from forgotten and a dedicated group of volunteers have been keeping the history alive with a small collection of trams which once ran on the city\u2019s tramway as well as one which plied its trade further afield. Having relocated to the Solent Sky Museum a few years ago they are now able to hold an annual event to show off their trams and this year that will be taking place on Saturday 8<sup>th<\/sup> and Sunday 9<sup>th<\/sup> June.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Solent Sky Tram Event 2024 takes place (unsurprisingly) at the Solent Sky Museum in Southampton which as well as being home to the Southampton Tram Project\u2019s three trams (<strong>11<\/strong> and <strong>38<\/strong> as well as <strong>Lisbon 715<\/strong>) is also a museum dedicated to the golden age of aviation (including a Spitfire and a Flying Boat) and is the home of the Hampshire Police and Fire Museum.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the full sized trams during the event there will be at least a dozen model tramway and railway layouts ranging from N gauge to \u00be inch scale along with trade stands. This will include some returning favourite layouts from previous years as well as some new layouts too.<\/p>\n<p>The event is on Saturday 8<sup>th<\/sup> and Sunday 9<sup>th<\/sup> June between 1000 and 1700 on both days. Admission to the museum is \u00a312 for adults and \u00a38 for children with a family ticket (2 adults and 3 children) costing \u00a325.<\/p>\n<p>Details of where the museum is are available on the Solent Sky website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solentsky.org\/find-us-contact\">https:\/\/www.solentsky.org\/find-us-contact<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was have been over 75 years since trams last ran in the Hampshire city of Southampton but they are far from forgotten and a dedicated group of volunteers have been keeping the history alive with a small collection of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53377\">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":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53377"}],"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=53377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53378,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53377\/revisions\/53378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}