{"id":40814,"date":"2021-08-01T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40814"},"modified":"2021-07-31T14:03:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T13:03:24","slug":"lockdown-walks-blackpool-012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40814","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Walks: Blackpool 012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d we feature a modern tram running in Blackpool.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It may be hard to believe but Blackpool\u2019s Flexity2 trams have now been operating the bulk of services for over nine years with the upgraded tramway opening in April 2012. Of the now 18 strong class of trams, <strong>012<\/strong> arrived in Blackpool just a day after services had begun \u2013 5<sup>th<\/sup> April 2012 \u2013 and it would just three weeks before it was carrying passengers for the first time on 26<sup>th<\/sup> April 2012.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40815\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=40815\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40815\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40815\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40815\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/012-th-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/012-th-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/012-th-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/012-th-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/012-th.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here we see 012 standing at North Pier when working a Fleetwood Ferry to Starr Gate service. Note its long standing side adverts for Wotels.com and also the reflection of Balloon 717 in the windows! (Photograph by Trevor Hall, 7th July 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d we feature a modern tram running in Blackpool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,88],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40814"}],"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=40814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40816,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40814\/revisions\/40816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}