{"id":42984,"date":"2021-12-18T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=42984"},"modified":"2021-12-17T16:51:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T16:51:55","slug":"they-ran-in-2021-blackpool-illuminated-western-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=42984","title":{"rendered":"They Ran in 2021: Blackpool Illuminated Western Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in \u201cThey Ran in 2021\u201d we make our first visit of this series to Blackpool with the iconic Western Train featuring.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Having completely missed the 2020 season because of delays in its overhaul caused by the pandemic, the <strong>Illuminated Western Train<\/strong> made a return to action on Friday 10<sup>th<\/sup> September. Since then it has been in action most evenings during the elongated illumination season providing delight not only to enthusiasts but families visiting Blackpool too.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42985\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=42985\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42985\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42985\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42985\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/733734-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/733734-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/733734-gp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/733734-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/733734-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We see the Western Train in this photo just leaving Pleasure Beach loop with an Illumination Tour. Sadly at this point a section of the lights weren\u2019t working. (Photograph by Gareth Prior, 24th September 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in \u201cThey Ran in 2021\u201d we make our first visit of this series to Blackpool with the iconic Western Train featuring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,98],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42984"}],"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=42984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42986,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42984\/revisions\/42986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}