{"id":20569,"date":"2018-04-23T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=20569"},"modified":"2018-04-23T21:10:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T20:10:39","slug":"inside%e2%80%a6blackpool-balloon-723","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=20569","title":{"rendered":"Inside\u2026Blackpool Balloon 717"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of photos we include on this website feature the exterior of trams but in this article we take a look at the interior of <strong>Blackpool Balloon 717,<\/strong>\u00a0a popular member of the heritage fleet on its home town tramway. Gavin Lindsay provides us with the pictures. <!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21088\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=21088\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21088\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21088\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21088\" title=\"1.723-gl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1.723-gl-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1.723-gl-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1.723-gl-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1.723-gl.jpg 1251w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this first view we take a look at one of the cabs. Fairly standard of Balloon Cars we see the drivers door open with the tip up seat visible along with the various controls. There is also a selection of Heritage Tram Tour leaflets!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_21089\" style=\"width: 422px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=21089\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21089\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21089\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21089\" title=\"2.723-gl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2.723-gl-412x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2.723-gl-412x550.jpg 412w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2.723-gl-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2.723-gl.jpg 958w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moving along to the centre platform and we look down towards the end of the tram. Swingover seats with the traditional and familiar Blackpool moquette. One of the staircases to the upper deck is also seen here. (Both Photographs by Gavin Lindsay)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of photos we include on this website feature the exterior of trams but in this article we take a look at the interior of Blackpool Balloon 717,\u00a0a popular member of the heritage fleet on its home town tramway. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=20569\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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\/20569"}],"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=20569"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21810,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20569\/revisions\/21810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}