{"id":33731,"date":"2020-05-15T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33731"},"modified":"2020-05-15T17:16:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T16:16:07","slug":"picture-in-time-newcastle-114-blackpool-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33731","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Newcastle 114 &#038; Blackpool 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tram double for you today as we are again at Beamish and take a look at <strong>Newcastle 114<\/strong> and <strong>Blackpool 31<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The chances are than if you visit Beamish in 2020 on a warm and sunny day (doesn\u2019t even need to be that warm or sunny to be honest!) you will still get the chance to ride on one of these two open toppers: <strong>Newcastle 114<\/strong> and <strong>Blackpool 31<\/strong>. These two were out on 16th August 1996 and are seen passing in the Town. Presumably passengers have just alighted from <strong>31<\/strong> as it seems strangely quiet especially when you compare it with <strong>114<\/strong> which seems to still have a full load of passengers.<\/p>\n<p>By the time of this photo <strong>31<\/strong> had been in service at Beamish for nearly 10 years having been restored back to its 1920s condition from a works car and remains in service to this day, having also spent time on loan back in Blackpool and also at Heaton Park. <strong>114<\/strong> has also had a brief period away on loan having been at Crich for their Electric 50 event in 2014.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33732\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=33732\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33732\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33732\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33732\" title=\"31+114-kj\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/31+114-kj-550x357.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/31+114-kj-550x357.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/31+114-kj-1024x665.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/31+114-kj.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Ken Jones<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tram double for you today as we are again at Beamish and take a look at Newcastle 114 and Blackpool 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33731"}],"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=33731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33734,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33731\/revisions\/33734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}