{"id":36816,"date":"2020-12-14T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=36816"},"modified":"2020-12-13T08:39:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T08:39:48","slug":"trams-blackpool-147-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=36816","title":{"rendered":"Trams &#038;: Blackpool 147 &#038; bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the old and the modern for today\u2019s \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d as heritage tram <strong>Blackpool Standard 147<\/strong> heads along the Prom at the same time as one of Blackpool Transport\u2019s current fleet of buses.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This image was captured on 27<sup>th<\/sup> September 2020 with <strong>Standard 147<\/strong> having just passed the Tower and Coral Island and is about to get as far as the Sealife Centre as it operates a Heritage Tour south to Pleasure Beach during the 135<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary weekend of events.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on the adjacent Prom road amongst several cars going about their daily business we see one of Blackpool Transport\u2019s Palladium branded buses. This is only a fairly recent acquisition for Blackpool having been delivered in March 2020, numbered 457 in the bus fleet it is an ADL Enviro 400C which was operating a line 11 service south to Lytham when seen here.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36817\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=36817\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36817\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36817\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36817\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/147bus-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/147bus-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/147bus-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/147bus-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/147bus.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the old and the modern for today\u2019s \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d as heritage tram Blackpool Standard 147 heads along the Prom at the same time as one of Blackpool Transport\u2019s current fleet of buses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36816"}],"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=36816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36818,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36816\/revisions\/36818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}