{"id":31853,"date":"2019-12-23T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31853"},"modified":"2019-12-21T20:47:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T20:47:19","slug":"they-ran-in-2019-blackpool-boat-227","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31853","title":{"rendered":"They Ran in 2019: Blackpool Boat 227"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing our photographic series taking a look at heritage trams which ran during the year 2019 we feature <strong>Blackpool Boat 227<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Having returned to service last in 2018, 2019 was <strong>227<\/strong>\u2019s first full year back in service after a rewire and overhaul and as is always the case with the Boat Cars when the sun shines they are out and proving very popular.<\/p>\n<p>The first photo today shows <strong>227<\/strong> running in not quite so beautiful conditions on 24th May 2019 at Bispham with the tram just waiting at the northbound heritage stop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=31854\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31854\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-31854\" title=\"1.227-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.227-gp-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.227-gp-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.227-gp-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.227-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo number two sees <strong>227<\/strong> sitting on Pleasure Beach loop in the darkness of the illuminations as it waits to operate its second tour of the night on 29th September 2019.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31855\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=31855\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31855\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31855\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31855\" title=\"2.227-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.227-gp1-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.227-gp1-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.227-gp1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.227-gp1.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing our photographic series taking a look at heritage trams which ran during the year 2019 we feature Blackpool Boat 227.<\/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\/31853"}],"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=31853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31857,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31853\/revisions\/31857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}