{"id":42655,"date":"2021-12-01T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=42655"},"modified":"2021-11-30T20:17:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T20:17:38","slug":"15-years-apart-blackpool-rebuilt-balloon-707","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=42655","title":{"rendered":"15 Years Apart: Blackpool Rebuilt Balloon 707"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its British Trams Online Anniversary Month! That\u2019s right 1<sup>st<\/sup> December 2021 marks 19 years since this website launched on the internet and as we have done over the past few years that means during December we will be bringing you bonus content with additional photo series running on the News &amp; Features page \u2013 the first of these returning series is \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d which as the name suggests shows photos of a tram in 2006 and again in 2021, some have changed a lot, some have changed barely at all!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first tram to feature in the series is <strong>Blackpool Rebuilt Balloon 707<\/strong> which has remained in the resort throughout these 15 years although its use has changed from day-to-day operation on the tramway to becoming a member of the \u201cB fleet\u201d with some forays towards the heritage service. The first image was taken on 8<sup>th<\/sup> September 2006 and shows <strong>707<\/strong> at Bispham when heading back to depot \u2013 judging by a second tram just coming into shot it could be that there had been disruption at this point. The tram is an overall advertising livery for Coral Island\u2019s Buccaneer Bar which it carried between 2005 and 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=42656\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42656\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-42656\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1.707-gp-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1.707-gp-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1.707-gp-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1.707-gp-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1.707-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>2021 \u2013 25<sup>th<\/sup> September to be precise \u2013 and <strong>707<\/strong> has returned to green and cream and is captured here when being used as the Shop Tram at North Pier and Tower. 2021 has seen the tram actually used a \u201cB fleet\u201d car in the earlier season when social distancing measures were still in place but has also seen use on heritage workings more befitting its livery if not its modifications.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42657\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=42657\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42657\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42657\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42657\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2.707-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2.707-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2.707-gp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2.707-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2.707-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its British Trams Online Anniversary Month! That\u2019s right 1st December 2021 marks 19 years since this website launched on the internet and as we have done over the past few years that means during December we will be bringing you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=42655\">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":[77,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42655"}],"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=42655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42658,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42655\/revisions\/42658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}