{"id":36751,"date":"2020-12-10T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=36751"},"modified":"2020-12-09T16:54:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:54:33","slug":"15-years-apart-blackpool-balloon-715-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=36751","title":{"rendered":"15 Years Apart: Blackpool Balloon 715"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d we are again heading back to Blackpool where we take a look at one of the Balloon Cars in both 2005 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Balloon 715<\/strong> has become a popular tram with enthusiasts over the years and is now in the ownership of the Fylde Transport Trust, although is on loan to Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours which allows it to continue operation. In 2005 the tram was in a very plain advertising livery for Pleasure Beach\u2019s Mystique show. At that time the Pleasure Beach were going for very plain and simple adverts with a white background and this advert was no different as can be seen in the below photo taken at Manchester Square on 10<sup>th<\/sup> September 2005.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=36752\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36752\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-36752\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1.715-gp-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1.715-gp-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1.715-gp-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1.715-gp-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1.715-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>715<\/strong> is now in far more traditional colours having received a small amendment to its paintwork in 2019 to return it to the 1970s stye of fleet livery. At the same time it also received period adverts with the side of the tram seen in the below photos advertising CIS Insurance. This image was captured at North Pier and Tower on 26<sup>th<\/sup> September 2020.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36753\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=36753\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36753\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36753\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36753\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2.715-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2.715-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2.715-gp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2.715-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2.715-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d we are again heading back to Blackpool where we take a look at one of the Balloon Cars in both 2005 and 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36751"}],"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=36751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36754,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36751\/revisions\/36754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}