{"id":40832,"date":"2021-08-03T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40832"},"modified":"2021-07-31T14:15:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T13:15:25","slug":"lockdown-walks-blackpool-balloon-717-flexity2-012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40832","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Walks: Blackpool Balloon 717 &#038; Flexity2 012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blackpool is again the location for this edition of \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Blackpool is, of course, the only place in the UK where you can see traditional trams and modern trams side-by-side. With the Flexity2 trams running the core service they are joined by a selection of traditional trams which operate special Heritage Tram Tours giving you the best of both worlds.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40833\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=40833\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40833\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40833\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40833\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/717012-th-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/717012-th-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/717012-th-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/717012-th-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/717012-th.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is North Pier where we see the old and the new \u2013 Balloon 717 represents the old on the left with Flexity2 012 on the right as the modern face of the Blackpool Tramway. (Photograph by Trevor Hall, 7th July 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackpool is again the location for this edition of \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d.<\/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\/40832"}],"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=40832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40834,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40832\/revisions\/40834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}