{"id":33715,"date":"2020-05-13T20:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T19:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33715"},"modified":"2020-05-13T16:27:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T15:27:26","slug":"so-nearly-not-quite-blackpool-balloon-724","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33715","title":{"rendered":"So Nearly, Not Quite! Blackpool Balloon 724"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that the photography session sent around Victoria Street in central Fleetwood on 2nd September 2018 was not the most successful ever as we have another entry for \u201cSo Nearly, Not Quite\u201d!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The tram which was interrupted by a passing road vehicle this time was <strong>Balloon 724<\/strong> which was just coming towards the end of its journey to Fleetwood as it was seen approaching Victoria Street stop. At this time the tram \u2013 which was one of the four to receive flat fronts as part of its overhaul \u2013 was in the attractive Red &amp; Yellow Metro Coastlines livery and despite the best efforts of the passing traffic you can still see this livery at its best although it would appear the tram could do with a good wash! The grey car on the left seems to be parked but the shot is scuppered by the yellow car just coming into view. Ah, never mind, better luck next time!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33716\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=33716\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33716\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33716\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33716\" title=\"724-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/724-gp-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/724-gp-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/724-gp-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/724-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that the photography session sent around Victoria Street in central Fleetwood on 2nd September 2018 was not the most successful ever as we have another entry for \u201cSo Nearly, Not Quite\u201d!<\/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\/33715"}],"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=33715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33718,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33715\/revisions\/33718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}