{"id":31460,"date":"2019-12-15T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31460"},"modified":"2019-12-08T10:59:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T10:59:12","slug":"they-ran-in-2019-blackpool-balloon-701","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31460","title":{"rendered":"They Ran in 2019: Blackpool Balloon 701"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once more its up to Blackpool for this instalment of \u201cThey Ran in 2019\u201d and its another of the Balloon Cars up \u2013 no. <strong>701<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->With its unique Red and White livery <strong>701<\/strong> certainly turns heads when it is out and about with the tram used regularly on heritage tours both the standard Promenade tours, gold weekends and illumination tours too.<\/p>\n<p>We start off with an image of <strong>701<\/strong> at Bispham on 25th May 2019 as it approaches the stop operating a southbound service to Pleasure Beach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=31461\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31461\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-31461\" title=\"1.701-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.701-gp-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.701-gp-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.701-gp-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.701-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>The second shot shows <strong>701<\/strong> on 28th September operating an illumination tour at Bispham.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31462\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=31462\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31462\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31462\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31462\" title=\"2.701-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.701-gp-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.701-gp-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.701-gp-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.701-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once more its up to Blackpool for this instalment of \u201cThey Ran in 2019\u201d and its another of the Balloon Cars up \u2013 no. 701.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31460"}],"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=31460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31464,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31460\/revisions\/31464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}