{"id":33725,"date":"2020-05-14T20:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T19:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33725"},"modified":"2020-05-14T16:27:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T15:27:03","slug":"trams-blackpool-fleetwood-box-40-burrel-showmans-road-locomotive-3896","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33725","title":{"rendered":"Trams &#038;: Blackpool &#038; Fleetwood Box 40 &#038; Burrel Showmans Road Locomotive 3896"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was inevitable that in this series we were going to end up at Beamish at some point but what is probably the biggest surprise is that it has taken us this long!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The below photo is dated 12th April 2019 and was taken during Beamish\u2019s Great North Steam Fair when <strong>Blackpool &amp; Fleetwood Box 40<\/strong> was one of two visiting trams staying in the north east for an extended period. With its loan in Blackpool having ended it was on its way back to Crich \u2013 by the picturesque route obviously! \u2013 and would end up staying at Beamish until the end of August.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when social distancing was not a term we used in everyday life Burrell Showman Road Locomotive 3896 \u201cEarl Beatty\u201d is seen close alongside the tram as they both head towards the town. The steam powered locomotive was built in 1921 and is a regular performer at Beamish special events.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33726\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=33726\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33726\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33726\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33726\" title=\"40+3896-ps\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/40+3896-ps-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/40+3896-ps-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/40+3896-ps-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/40+3896-ps.jpg 1278w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Phil Steer<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was inevitable that in this series we were going to end up at Beamish at some point but what is probably the biggest surprise is that it has taken us this long!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33725"}],"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=33725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33728,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33725\/revisions\/33728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}