{"id":33817,"date":"2020-05-21T20:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T19:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33817"},"modified":"2020-05-21T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T15:38:12","slug":"so-nearly-not-quite-blackpool-boat-605","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33817","title":{"rendered":"So Nearly, Not Quite! Blackpool Boat 605"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s more a case of poor photography skills in this latest edition of \u201cSo Nearly, Not Quite\u201d, as there is a tram there somewhere we promise!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You may just be able to make-out <strong>Blackpool Boat 605<\/strong> in this shot taken at North Pier on 3rd September 2005 but with darkness having fallen some poor skills with the ol\u2019 camera mean it is very difficult to make out the tram with its dark livery (this was the Wartime Green and Cream style so mainly dark green) and without even the headlights (it being a going-away shot) to provide assistance its come out as a dark mess. At least we know the location by the illuminated Metropole sign. Ah, never mind, better luck next time!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33818\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=33818\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33818\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33818\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33818\" title=\"605-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/605-gp-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/605-gp-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/605-gp-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/605-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s more a case of poor photography skills in this latest edition of \u201cSo Nearly, Not Quite\u201d, as there is a tram there somewhere we promise!<\/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\/33817"}],"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=33817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33820,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33817\/revisions\/33820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}