{"id":40910,"date":"2021-08-09T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T19:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40910"},"modified":"2021-08-09T18:10:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:10:06","slug":"in-pictures-b-fleet-rebuilt-balloon-707-in-service-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40910","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: B fleet Rebuilt Balloon 707 in service again"},"content":{"rendered":"

We may have gone quiet over the past couple of months over the usage of Blackpool\u2019s B-fleet Balloons and Rebuilt Balloons but that doesn\u2019t mean they aren\u2019t still being used for their main purpose. Although usage has become a little more irregular \u2013 its dependent on available tram crews \u2013 they do still see use at weekends, mainly concentrated on the Starr Gate\/Pleasure Beach to Bispham\/Little Bispham section but with the occasional foray a bit further north along the tramway. In this article we take a look at 707<\/strong> in use on the first day of August with photos from David Stringer.<\/p>\n

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707 is just pulling away from North Pier here as it heads north to Little Bispham.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Here we see 707 after it has returned to Pleasure Beach. It will now head round the loop before it embarks on its next journey north.<\/p><\/div>\n

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On Little Bispham loop where we see 707 waiting out time before its off south again.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Crew break time at Bispham with 707 seen on the centre track. (All Photographs by David Stringer, 1st August 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We may have gone quiet over the past couple of months over the usage of Blackpool\u2019s B-fleet Balloons and Rebuilt Balloons but that doesn\u2019t mean they aren\u2019t still being used for their main purpose. Although usage has become a little … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40910"}],"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=40910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40915,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40910\/revisions\/40915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}