{"id":54117,"date":"2024-06-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54117"},"modified":"2024-06-09T08:44:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T07:44:06","slug":"events-this-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54117","title":{"rendered":"Events this week\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a week of openings as we finally get to see the Blackpool North Station extension opens whilst over in Manchester it\u2019s the first operating weekend of 2024 for the Heaton Park Tramway.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>First Tram to North Station<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday 12<sup>th<\/sup> June<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Blackpool Tramway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The official first tram will run to North Station with a special trip from Starr Gate Depot. A series of special pre-bookable tours will then run Thursday 13<sup>th<\/sup> to Saturday 15<sup>th<\/sup> June (including the first heritage tram on the Saturday). More details of booking the special tours at <a href=\"https:\/\/blackpoolheritage.com\/\">https:\/\/blackpoolheritage.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Start of 2024 season<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday 15<sup>th<\/sup> June<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Heaton Park Tramway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First trams of 2024 on the Heaton Park Tramway with late running until 2000!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Classic Car Day by NECPWA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday 16<sup>th<\/sup> June<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Beamish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The North of England Classic and Pre-War Automobiles Club will visit Beamish with a display of their cars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Start of passenger services to North Station<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday 16<sup>th<\/sup> June<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Blackpool Tramway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After all the delays and testing the day finally arrives \u2013 passengers will be able to travel on a normal service tram up Talbot Road and to North Station! The new timetable will kick in from this day which will see a tram every 30 minutes from Starr Gate and Fleetwood to North Station along with a tram every 30 minutes between Starr Gate and Fleetwood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vintage Bus Link to Manchester Museum of Transport<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday 16<sup>th<\/sup> June<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Heaton Park Tramway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A vintage bus will link the Manchester Museum of Transport and Heaton Park Tramway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Father\u2019s Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday 16<sup>th<\/sup> June<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seaton Tramway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dad\u2019s travel free with an accompanying paying child.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Driver\u2019s Eye Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday 16<sup>th<\/sup> June<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seaton Tramway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A taster driving experience at Seaton giving you a 40 minute drive between Colyton and Seaton Wetlands.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, other heritage tramways will be operating their usual services over the next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a week of openings as we finally get to see the Blackpool North Station extension opens whilst over in Manchester it\u2019s the first operating weekend of 2024 for the Heaton Park Tramway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7,14,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54117"}],"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=54117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54118,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54117\/revisions\/54118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}