{"id":37543,"date":"2021-02-11T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=37543"},"modified":"2021-02-07T09:13:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T09:13:30","slug":"stop-by-stop-blackpool-tramway-burlington-road-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=37543","title":{"rendered":"Stop by Stop Blackpool Tramway: Burlington Road West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We continue our way north between Starr Gate and North Pier on the Blackpool Tramway in this latest edition of \u201cStop by Stop\u201d and come to the final intermediate stop before Pleasure Beach \u2013 Burlington Road West.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Burlington Road West is the first stop on the tramway with significantly staggered platforms with the southbound stop further south than the northbound one. The southbound stop is again the more sparsely populated as it is sans shelters but does have the bench and information panel (as well as an overhead support pole right slap bang in the middle of it!). The northbound stop has the shelter as well as information panels and lighting columns. The stop opened on 4<sup>th<\/sup> April 2012.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_37544\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=37544\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37544\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37544\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3a.burlingtonroadwest-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3a.burlingtonroadwest-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3a.burlingtonroadwest-gp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3a.burlingtonroadwest-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3a.burlingtonroadwest-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The trouble with staggered platforms is it is difficult to get both of them in to one shot! Taken looking north we see the southbound platform closer to the camera and the northbound one visible in the distance on the left.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_37545\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=37545\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37545\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37545\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37545\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3b.009-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3b.009-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3b.009-gp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3b.009-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3b.009-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">009 has just arrived at Burlington Road West\u2019s northbound platform in this shot.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_37547\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=37547\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37547\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37547\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37547\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3c.016-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3c.016-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3c.016-gp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3c.016-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3c.016-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With the northbound platform seen on the left we switch our attention to 016 \u2013 in advert for Pretty Little Thing.com \u2013 which is just arriving at the southbound stop. (All Photographs by Gareth Prior, 25th September 2020)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continue our way north between Starr Gate and North Pier on the Blackpool Tramway in this latest edition of \u201cStop by Stop\u201d and come to the final intermediate stop before Pleasure Beach \u2013 Burlington Road West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,92],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37543"}],"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=37543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37548,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37543\/revisions\/37548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}