{"id":25426,"date":"2018-12-31T19:33:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T19:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=25426"},"modified":"2018-12-31T19:33:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T19:33:56","slug":"balloon-711-on-standby-for-snow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=25426","title":{"rendered":"Balloon 711 on standby for snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many years it has been the norm for at least one of Blackpool&#8217;s Balloon cars to be fitted with snowplough equipment for the winter. In the last few years, members of the &#8216;B Fleet&#8217; have been used in this capacity and for 2018\/19, car <strong>711 <\/strong>has been chosen to receive a plough at one end.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last year saw two of the purple liveried Balloons fitted with snowploughs, but with <strong>719 <\/strong>currently out of service with a motor defect, <strong>711 <\/strong>is the sole plough car this time around, although a second, smaller plough has been attached to one of the road\/rail Unimogs for possible use. With snow being a rare phenomenon in Blackpool, it seems unlikely that we shall see a purple snowplough-fitted Balloon car in action &#8211; but you never know!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25427\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=25427\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25427\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25427\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-25427\" title=\"291218. Blackpool FTS tour (4)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/291218.-Blackpool-FTS-tour-4-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/291218.-Blackpool-FTS-tour-4-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/291218.-Blackpool-FTS-tour-4-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/291218.-Blackpool-FTS-tour-4.jpg 1714w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A line-up of trams at the front of Rigby Road depot in late December, with the snowplough-fitted 711 joined by Brush 621, Railcoach 680 and Standard 147. (Photo by Harold Hull)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many years it has been the norm for at least one of Blackpool&#8217;s Balloon cars to be fitted with snowplough equipment for the winter. In the last few years, members of the &#8216;B Fleet&#8217; have been used in this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=25426\">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\/25426"}],"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=25426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25429,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25426\/revisions\/25429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}