{"id":3834,"date":"2013-05-18T17:04:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T16:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=3834"},"modified":"2013-05-18T19:54:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T18:54:20","slug":"in-pictures-more-blackpool-heritage-trams-in-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=3834","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: More Blackpool Heritage trams in operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we have previously shown you on these pages the recent May Day Bank Holiday weekend was another successful period of heritage tram operation in Blackpool with the highlights being the return to service of <strong>Brush 631<\/strong> in its new livery and <strong>Balloon 701<\/strong> for\u00a0the first time since 2010. But that weekend has not been the only occasion recently when heritage trams have escaped from Rigby Road with <strong>Frigate 736<\/strong> noted running with a party of schoolchildren on Wednesday 8 May and Standard 147 running through to Fleetwood on Saturday 11 May on a private hire. Alan Taylor has kindly supplied us with photos of <strong>701<\/strong> in use over the Bank Holiday weekend and of <strong>147<\/strong> at Fleetwood Ferry.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3836\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=3836\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3836\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3836\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3836\" title=\"Tram 701, Lord St. 6-5-13_1_1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Tram-701-Lord-St.-6-5-13_1_1-550x398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Tram-701-Lord-St.-6-5-13_1_1-550x398.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Tram-701-Lord-St.-6-5-13_1_1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On 6 May Balloon 701 heads down Lord Street whilst operating on the Heritage service.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3835\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=3835\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3835\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3835\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3835\" title=\"015+147-Fleetwood-Ferry-web\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/015+147-Fleetwood-Ferry-web-550x387.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/015+147-Fleetwood-Ferry-web-550x387.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/015+147-Fleetwood-Ferry-web-1024x721.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/015+147-Fleetwood-Ferry-web.jpg 1479w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3835\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On 11 May Standard 147 ran a Private Hire to Fleetwood and was then stabled on the passing loop at the Ferry which is where we see it as Flexity2 015 passes by with a service back to Starr Gate. (Both photos: Alan Taylor)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we have previously shown you on these pages the recent May Day Bank Holiday weekend was another successful period of heritage tram operation in Blackpool with the highlights being the return to service of Brush 631 in its new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=3834\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834"}],"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=3834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3844,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions\/3844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}