{"id":53550,"date":"2024-04-28T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53550"},"modified":"2024-04-28T09:47:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T08:47:25","slug":"route-revealed-for-blackpool-full-system-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53550","title":{"rendered":"Route revealed for Blackpool Full System Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 5<sup>th<\/sup> May will see the first (of two planned) Full System Tour\u2019s on the Blackpool Tramway with the tram going places where normal tours don\u2019t go such as crossovers and into Starr Gate Depot. The exact route of this trip has now been announced along with a change of planned tram as it will now be <strong>Balloon 717<\/strong> in charge instead of the previously announced <strong>Balloon 723<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The tour will depart from North Pier heritage stop at 1100 and then will run as follows:<\/p>\n<p>North Pier<\/p>\n<p>Hopton Road<\/p>\n<p>Blundell Street (as far as breaker)<\/p>\n<p>Foxhall<\/p>\n<p>Starr Gate through the tram wash<\/p>\n<p>Starr Gate head shunt<\/p>\n<p>Any Depot Road<\/p>\n<p>Depot to Starr Gate platforms<\/p>\n<p>Tower<\/p>\n<p>Pleasure Beach outer loop<\/p>\n<p>Little Bispham via Bispham west track<\/p>\n<p>Cabin via Bispham centre track<\/p>\n<p>Fleetwood Ferry<\/p>\n<p>Via Bispham centre line and Thornton Gate centre line<\/p>\n<p>Fleetwood Ferry outer loop (break)<\/p>\n<p>Fisherman\u2019s Walk<\/p>\n<p>Fleetwood Ferry inner loop<\/p>\n<p>Cleveleys<\/p>\n<p>Thornton Gate<\/p>\n<p>Festival House<\/p>\n<p>The full tour should take around four hours with it planned to be back at North Pier by 1500.<\/p>\n<p>It costs \u00a325 for adults and \u00a312.50 for children. It can be booked in advance at <a href=\"https:\/\/blackpoolheritage.com\/tours\/systemtour\/\">https:\/\/blackpoolheritage.com\/tours\/systemtour\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A second Full System Tour will follow on Sunday 29<sup>th<\/sup> September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 5th May will see the first (of two planned) Full System Tour\u2019s on the Blackpool Tramway with the tram going places where normal tours don\u2019t go such as crossovers and into Starr Gate Depot. The exact route of this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53550\">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\/53550"}],"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=53550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53551,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53550\/revisions\/53551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}