{"id":65351,"date":"2026-11-14T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=65351"},"modified":"2026-11-13T19:33:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T19:33:32","slug":"western-train-to-make-more-static-displays-at-north-pier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=65351","title":{"rendered":"Western Train to make more static displays at North Pier!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blackpool\u2019s Illuminated <strong>Western Train<\/strong> obviously enjoyed its time being a static exhibit at North Pier siding during Lightpool \u2013 as its going to be back there every Friday and Saturday in the lead-up to Christmas!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Blackpool Transport have announced that the tram will displayed in the siding\/loop line\/heritage tram stop to bring a little extra Christmas sparkle to the seafront.<\/p>\n<p>It will again be towed to North Pier from Starr Gate Depot to take pride of place here and show its lights off to the public. Christmas by the Sea will also be taking place at the Tower Headland starting from 20<sup>th<\/sup> November through until Sunday 3<sup>rd<\/sup> January 2027, and of course the Illuminations continue to shine brightly nightly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackpool\u2019s Illuminated Western Train obviously enjoyed its time being a static exhibit at North Pier siding during Lightpool \u2013 as its going to be back there every Friday and Saturday in the lead-up to Christmas!<\/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\/65351"}],"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=65351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65352,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65351\/revisions\/65352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}