{"id":34145,"date":"2020-06-08T18:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=34145"},"modified":"2020-06-08T16:12:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T15:12:40","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-balloon-702-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=34145","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Balloon 702"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After last week\u2019s photo of a tram returning to depot at Manchester Square we remain in the same location to see another tram doing the very same manoeuvre.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Again dating from June 1993 in this photo we see two Balloon Cars \u2013 led by <strong>702<\/strong> \u2013 at Manchester Square. <strong>702<\/strong> is off back to Rigby Road Depot at the end of its days work. It is in the then standard 1990s green and cream fleet livery style and also features a \u201cT\u201d advert for Tower World \u2013 the brand that Blackpool Tower was known as at the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>702<\/strong> had entered service in 1934 and received its first pantograph in 1991. It remained in service until 2009 when withdrawal came but not before it was used on the last night of traditional trams to Fleetwood in November of that year. It departed Blackpool for the last time in 2010 and can now be found stored at the Heaton Park Tramway.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34146\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=34146\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34146\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34146\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34146\" title=\"702b-jj\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/702b-jj-550x363.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/702b-jj-550x363.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/702b-jj-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/702b-jj.jpg 1293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Jonathan Jarvis<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After last week\u2019s photo of a tram returning to depot at Manchester Square we remain in the same location to see another tram doing the very same manoeuvre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34145"}],"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=34145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34148,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34145\/revisions\/34148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}