{"id":34172,"date":"2020-06-10T20:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=34172"},"modified":"2020-06-11T16:26:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T15:26:47","slug":"so-nearly-not-quite-bolton-66-box-40-balloon-711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=34172","title":{"rendered":"So Nearly, Not Quite: Bolton 66, Box 40 &#038; Balloon 711"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a tram line-up which would make a great photo \u2013 if it wasn\u2019t for something getting in the way! \u2013 as we continue our \u201cjust for fun\u201d look at what may have been in a perfect photography world.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When you are taking photos in a public environment you have to accept that the chances of getting a shot without a single person in the way is almost non-existent and to that end the photographer on this occasion had lined up this triple tram shot at North Pier and Tower with one onlooker as part of the image. But then just as the shutter was pressed along came another pedestrian, right in the way of <strong>Bolton 66<\/strong> as it headed past south with <strong>Box 40<\/strong> waiting on the centre track and <strong>Balloon 711<\/strong> the Shop Tram. The date was 23rd September 2018. Ah, never mind, better luck next time!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34173\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=34173\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34173\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34173\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34173\" title=\"66+40+711-jh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/66+40+711-jh-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/66+40+711-jh-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/66+40+711-jh-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/66+40+711-jh.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by John Hibbert<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a tram line-up which would make a great photo \u2013 if it wasn\u2019t for something getting in the way! \u2013 as we continue our \u201cjust for fun\u201d look at what may have been in a perfect photography world.<\/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\/34172"}],"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=34172"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34195,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34172\/revisions\/34195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}