{"id":31868,"date":"2019-12-26T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31868"},"modified":"2019-12-21T20:52:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T20:52:35","slug":"they-ran-in-2019-blackpool-balloon-715","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31868","title":{"rendered":"They Ran in 2019: Blackpool Balloon 715"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve become rather Blackpool biased in this series as the fourth day in a row we feature a tram from that system, but this time we are actually back in Blackpool and feature one of the more popular heritage vehicles, <strong>Balloon 715<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Owned by the Fylde Transport Trust, <strong>715<\/strong> is on long term loan to the heritage fleet in Blackpool and in early 2019 underwent some workshop attention which saw a minor paint touch-up changing the livery from the 1990s to the 1970s whilst also getting some period between deck adverts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>715<\/strong>\u2019s first use in its new look was for a Ghost Tram tour on 24th May and that is when we see the tram standing at North Pier\/Tower heritage stop awaiting departure. This side of the tram features a Blackpool Zoo advert.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=31869\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31869\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-31869\" title=\"1.715-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.715-gp1-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.715-gp1-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.715-gp1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.715-gp1.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other side of the tram has an advert for CIS Insurance and that is side of the tram we see here as it approaches Bispham with a full line working to Fleetwood on 29th September.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31870\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=31870\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31870\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31870\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31870\" title=\"2.715-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.715-gp1-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.715-gp1-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.715-gp1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.715-gp1.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve become rather Blackpool biased in this series as the fourth day in a row we feature a tram from that system, but this time we are actually back in Blackpool and feature one of the more popular heritage vehicles, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31868\">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":[7,76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31868"}],"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=31868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31872,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31868\/revisions\/31872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}