{"id":14655,"date":"2016-05-19T22:22:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T21:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14655"},"modified":"2016-05-19T22:22:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T21:22:18","slug":"flexity-015-stars-on-coronation-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14655","title":{"rendered":"Flexity 015 stars on Coronation Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a filming session on 11th April, scenes shot in Blackpool were aired on ITV&#8217;s long-running soap opera Coronation Street on Monday 16th May. This included a brief appearance by <strong>Flexity 015 <\/strong>which was used for a stunt which almost saw a young character knocked down after running onto the tram tracks.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The boy was pushed out of harm&#8217;s way by the character Jenny Bradley, who is the daughter of Alan Bradley who was of course famously killed by <strong>Balloon 710 <\/strong>many years ago. Happily this time no serious harm was done and the tram was able to continue on its journey whilst the cast all returned to Weatherfield alive and well. Hopefully these scenes will remind viewers of the dangers of trams and other vehicles, and the need to supervise small children to prevent such incidents from happening.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned previously, <strong>015 <\/strong>was adorned with images of various Blackpool landmarks along its roof side panels for its starring role to cover up its advertisements although these were hardly visible during its brief appearance on screen. Rather annoyingly, the train-like whistle sound made by Manchester Metrolink trams was dubbed over one scene, rather than use the Flexity&#8217;s own warning signal, but presumably not many people watching would have known or cared about such matters!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a filming session on 11th April, scenes shot in Blackpool were aired on ITV&#8217;s long-running soap opera Coronation Street on Monday 16th May. This included a brief appearance by Flexity 015 which was used for a stunt which almost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14655\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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\/14655"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14656,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655\/revisions\/14656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}