{"id":25993,"date":"2019-02-12T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=25993"},"modified":"2019-02-12T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T17:58:08","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-balloon-710-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=25993","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Balloon 710"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you remember the time when <strong>Blackpool Balloon 710<\/strong> was included as part of the Fleetwood Transport Festival parade? The year was 2011 and with the tram acquired by the Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust it was transported through the town \u2013 its last public appearance.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>710<\/strong> had been withdrawn from service in 2007 and remained in its last Blackpool Transport livery during the parade. This livery was the Line 7 Magenta and Yellow Metro Coastlines livery (a version of which was also carried by <strong>713<\/strong>) and the parade of the tram on the back of what was to be a very familiar Scotts low loader in the next few years was certainly an eyeopener. The parade also provided the chance to transport the tram to its new home in Fleetwood ahead of a planned tram museum. To this day <strong>710<\/strong> remains in Fleetwood with no public access waiting for this attraction to get off the ground.<\/p>\n<p>In this photo we see the tram on the back of the aforementioned low loader with special adverts applied publicising the then Friends of Fleetwood Trams (now Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust) plus the appropriate Ash Street Fleetwood destination.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25994\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=25994\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25994\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25994\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25994\" title=\"710-pg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/710-pg-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/710-pg-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/710-pg-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/710-pg.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Peter Gough<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you remember the time when Blackpool Balloon 710 was included as part of the Fleetwood Transport Festival parade? The year was 2011 and with the tram acquired by the Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust it was transported through the town &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=25993\">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":[7,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25993"}],"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=25993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25996,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25993\/revisions\/25996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}