{"id":15835,"date":"2016-11-24T18:24:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T18:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=15835"},"modified":"2016-11-24T18:24:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T18:24:31","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-balloon-713-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=15835","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Balloon 713"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We head back over 40 years to Blackpool for our latest edition of Picture in Time and feature one of the iconic Balloon Cars \u2013 <strong>713<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This is <strong>Balloon Car 713<\/strong>, the first of the as delivered fully enclosed Balloon Cars for the Blackpool Tramway, arriving in the resort in the last month of 1934 with a swift entry into service on 15th December of the same year. By the time the tram was captured on camera at Fleetwood Ferry \u2013 with the North Euston Hotel in the background \u2013 it had seen its double indicators replaced by a single indicator but other changes which were to follow in the future were still a long way away. In this view the tram is waiting for departure with a service for Manchester Square in June 1972 but it doesn\u2019t appear that passengers are too keen for a trip on board the tram.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15836\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=15836\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15836\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15836\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15836\" title=\"713-bh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/713-bh-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/713-bh-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/713-bh-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/713-bh.jpg 1214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Bob Hodges<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We head back over 40 years to Blackpool for our latest edition of Picture in Time and feature one of the iconic Balloon Cars \u2013 713.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15835"}],"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=15835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15839,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15835\/revisions\/15839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}