{"id":53766,"date":"2024-05-16T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53766"},"modified":"2024-05-16T19:37:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:37:07","slug":"planned-service-frequency-announced-for-blackpool-tramway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53766","title":{"rendered":"Planned service frequency announced for Blackpool Tramway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the announcement last month that the Blackpool Tramway extension up Talbot Road to North Station would open to the public from 16<sup>th<\/sup> June (and even before then) one of the questions on people\u2019s lips has been \u201cwhat sort of service will run on the extension?\u201d. And that has now been answered with the planned service frequency having been revealed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One of the concerns of some was that all trams running between Starr Gate and Fleetwood would be diverted to head onto the extension but that is thankfully not the case, although there is likely to be some complaints about the planned service pattern which will see a significant reduction in frequency of trams running along the entire length of the tramway.<\/p>\n<p>There will be three different services operating:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starr Gate to Fleetwood Ferry<\/li>\n<li>Starr Gate to North Station<\/li>\n<li>Fleetwood Ferry to North Station<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each of these services will run every 30 minutes. Combined that means that the advertised frequency will be as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starr Gate to North Pier \u2013 every 15 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Fleetwood Ferry to North Pier \u2013 every 15 minutes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The exact timetable has not yet been published so its not clear at the moment whether there will be decent connections at North Station to transfer between trams on the Fleetwood and Starr Gate services.<\/p>\n<p>If there are not good connections it looks set to mean that frequency between anywhere north of North Pier and those locations south (and vice versa) will be halved from the current timetable with just one tram every 30 minutes. With the number of hotels on the prom between North Pier and Bispham (and beyond to Norbreck) with tourists wanting to get to the Pleasure Beach for example it would appear that there will be a lot of \u201cSorry Tram Full\u201d displays on the trams once again this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The new timetable will be introduced as from Sunday 16<sup>th<\/sup> June with no details as to when this may run until (although recent years have not seen many changes to the timetable as the season has progressed as we were used to seeing in the past).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53767\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=53767\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53767\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53767\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53767\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/012006-pd-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/012006-pd-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/012006-pd-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/012006-pd-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/012006-pd.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Driver familiarisation has been continuing on the extension since getting underway in April. Here trams meet on Talbot Road when heading in opposite directions, an issue with the lights here on this day caused delays and led to the two trams being stationery for some time. Its 012 on the left and 006 on the right. (Photograph by Peter Dockerty, 8th May 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the announcement last month that the Blackpool Tramway extension up Talbot Road to North Station would open to the public from 16th June (and even before then) one of the questions on people\u2019s lips has been \u201cwhat sort of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53766\">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\/53766"}],"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=53766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53768,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53766\/revisions\/53768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}