We may still be a week or so away from the operating season getting underway on Manchester\u2019s Heaton Park Tramway but they are already planning for the rest of the year with an announcement of a series of events.<\/p>\n
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As previously reported, the season\u2019s start was delayed due to a fault in substation but this has now been repaired and the past few weeks have seen extensive testing and commissioning of the tram fleet taking place. This will allow the tramway to open again on Saturday 15th<\/sup> June and to mark the occasion trams will stay running until 2000 \u2013 subject to weather this will hopefully see an open car in operation.<\/p>\n Over the past few years there has been a successful heritage bus link from the Manchester Museum of Transport at Boyle Street and that will again be happening this year with dates set as Sunday 16th<\/sup> June and Sunday 14th<\/sup> July. And if buses are your thing Sunday 18th<\/sup> August will be another date for your diary as there will be a cavalcade of vintage buses from the Museum of Transport.<\/p>\n Saturday 31st<\/sup> August will see the return of the Model Tram Exhibition and then just over a week later on Sunday 8th<\/sup> September is the annual enthusiast event, Tramtastic! where you can expect all operational trams running at some point and special photo opportunities of stored cars.<\/p>\n The year then ends on Saturday 9th<\/sup> November with an End of Season Running and Evening Service. This will again include a vintage bus service as well as trams running after dark.<\/p>\n More details on all the above will doubtless follow in the coming months!<\/p>\n Saturday 15th<\/sup> June \u2013 Tramway Reopening with services until 2000<\/p>\n Sunday 16th<\/sup> June \u2013 Vintage Bus Service to Manchester Museum of Transport<\/p>\n Sunday 14th<\/sup> July – Vintage Bus Service to Manchester Museum of Transport<\/p>\n Sunday 18th<\/sup> August – Vintage Bus Cavalcade<\/p>\n Saturday 31st<\/sup> August \u2013 Model Tram Exhibition<\/p>\n Sunday 8th<\/sup> September \u2013 Tramtastic!<\/p>\n Saturday 9th<\/sup> November \u2013 End of Season Evening Running and Bus Service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We may still be a week or so away from the operating season getting underway on Manchester\u2019s Heaton Park Tramway but they are already planning for the rest of the year with an announcement of a series of events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54099"}],"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=54099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54100,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54099\/revisions\/54100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}