{"id":36135,"date":"2020-10-26T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=36135"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:30:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T16:30:59","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-balloon-713-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=36135","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Balloon 713"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latter years of the Blackpool Tramway (pre-upgrade that is) saw a number of plain liveried trams in action and in 2007 that included the subject of our latest edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last time out we saw an overhauled Balloon Car which had gone flat fronted but after four trams received this rebuild it was back to a more traditional design once <strong>713<\/strong> went through the workshops although with several modern additions. When we see the tram in July 2007 it was running in a plain white livery as it was in-between two adverts \u2013 one for Asda (removed in May) and the other a very short-lived one for the Conservative Party during their conference in Blackpool during the September \u2013 but it had also carried this plain style immediately following its major rebuild. <strong>713<\/strong> is another tram which has had the \u201cB\u201d fleet amendments but sees more use on heritage tours than for its originally intended purpose.<\/p>\n<p>In this photo we see <strong>713<\/strong> in Fleetwood as it approaches the end of its journey from Starr Gate. This shot is taken from the top deck of another Balloon Car but we can\u2019t quite see enough of the livery to tell for definite what it is!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36136\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=36136\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36136\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36136\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36136\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/713-bg-550x368.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/713-bg-550x368.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/713-bg-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/713-bg-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/713-bg.jpg 1299w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Bryan Grint<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latter years of the Blackpool Tramway (pre-upgrade that is) saw a number of plain liveried trams in action and in 2007 that included the subject of our latest edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d.<\/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\/36135"}],"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=36135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36137,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36135\/revisions\/36137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}