{"id":33665,"date":"2020-05-09T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33665"},"modified":"2020-05-08T19:43:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:43:47","slug":"so-nearly-not-quite-blackpool-balloon-718","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33665","title":{"rendered":"So Nearly, Not Quite! Blackpool Balloon 718"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been here before! Previously in this series we have been on the approach to Victoria Street stop in Fleetwood with a road vehicle getting in the way and that is exactly what happened to me again in this image of <strong>Balloon 718<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In fact not only is it the same location, it\u2019s the same date as the example of <strong>713<\/strong> previously seen! 2nd September 2018 and with <strong>Rebuilt Balloon 718<\/strong> approaching Victoria Street \u2013 although with a lot fewer passengers than we saw on <strong>713<\/strong> \u2013 a Stagecoach bus comes on by working a service on route 84. With the sun glinting off the roof of <strong>718<\/strong> this may have been a half decent shot if it hadn\u2019t been for the bus! Ah, never mind, better luck next time!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33666\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=33666\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33666\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33666\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33666\" title=\"718-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/718-gp-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/718-gp-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/718-gp-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/718-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been here before! Previously in this series we have been on the approach to Victoria Street stop in Fleetwood with a road vehicle getting in the way and that is exactly what happened to me again in this image &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33665\">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":[7,83],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33665"}],"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=33665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33669,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33665\/revisions\/33669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}