{"id":16279,"date":"2017-01-06T22:38:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T22:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=16279"},"modified":"2017-01-06T22:38:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T22:38:45","slug":"blackpool-on-great-british-railway-journeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=16279","title":{"rendered":"Blackpool on &#8216;Great British Railway Journeys&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming episode of the popular BBC2 television series &#8216;Great British Railway Journeys&#8217;, hosted by Michael Portillo, to be shown on Monday 9th January at 6:30pm, will see the presenter travel between Blackpool and Manchester. This programme is expected to feature scenes that were filmed in spring 2016, showing Portillo travelling aboard <strong>Blackpool &amp; Fleetwood Box car 40<\/strong>\u00a0of 1914.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Although there is no mention of trams in any of the promotion for this episode, Fleetwood is referenced, indicating that hopefully there will be some footage of the tramway that connects the shipping town with Blackpool.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone unable to watch on the night, the programme will also be available to watch online through the BBC website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming episode of the popular BBC2 television series &#8216;Great British Railway Journeys&#8217;, hosted by Michael Portillo, to be shown on Monday 9th January at 6:30pm, will see the presenter travel between Blackpool and Manchester. This programme is expected to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=16279\">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\/16279"}],"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=16279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16281,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279\/revisions\/16281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}