{"id":20022,"date":"2017-12-22T00:03:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T00:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=20022"},"modified":"2017-12-22T00:03:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T00:03:12","slug":"balloon-711-on-standby-for-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=20022","title":{"rendered":"Balloon 711 on standby for snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is traditional for the Blackpool tramway to prepare for possible snowfalls by equipping two Balloon cars with snowploughs. Last year saw <strong>711 <\/strong>from the B Fleet selected for this role, and it has been chosen again this year. The tram was recently observed in front of the Electrical Compound with its plough fitted.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The snowplough attached to <strong>711 <\/strong>is the smaller of the two held in stock, and the other larger plough is believed to be fitted to another Balloon car. For the last few years, <strong>701 <\/strong>has been the chosen one although it has been suggested that <strong>719 <\/strong>may take its place. Heavy snow is a rarity on the Fylde coast and so the chances of two purple Balloons clearing snow from the tracks are low, but would certainly be an incredible sight to behold!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20023\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=20023\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20023\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20023\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20023\" title=\"711 plough\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/711-plough-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/711-plough-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/711-plough-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/711-plough.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebuilt Balloon 711 sits in Rigby Road depot waiting for the somewhat unlikely call to action in the event of heavy snow. Similar liveried 700 can be seen alongside. (Photo by Chris Callan)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is traditional for the Blackpool tramway to prepare for possible snowfalls by equipping two Balloon cars with snowploughs. Last year saw 711 from the B Fleet selected for this role, and it has been chosen again this year. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=20022\">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\/20022"}],"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=20022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20026,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20022\/revisions\/20026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}