{"id":34755,"date":"2020-07-16T20:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=34755"},"modified":"2020-07-16T16:15:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T15:15:08","slug":"so-nearly-not-quite-blackpool-railgrinder-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=34755","title":{"rendered":"So Nearly, Not Quite! Blackpool Railgrinder 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a historic feel to this edition of \u201cSo Nearly, Not Quite!\u201d as we are heading back to 1969.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Of course, 1969 was well before digital photography had been thought of and when a photo didn\u2019t come out as you expected it was more crucial and so it was with this image of <strong>Blackpool Railgrinder 2<\/strong> at Crich during the annual Extravaganza of that year. Each year around this time as an added attraction at this event no. <strong>2<\/strong> received external illuminations as can be seen in this photo. With the tram stationary the camera was taken out the shutter was pressed and then a couple walk by right in front of the tram! Ah, never mind, better luck next time!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34756\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=34756\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34756\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34756\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34756\" title=\"2-kc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2-kc-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2-kc-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2-kc-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2-kc.jpg 1285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Keith Chadbourne<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a historic feel to this edition of \u201cSo Nearly, Not Quite!\u201d as we are heading back to 1969.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,83],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34755"}],"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=34755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34758,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34755\/revisions\/34758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}