{"id":43037,"date":"2021-12-22T14:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43037"},"modified":"2021-12-22T16:50:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T16:50:37","slug":"they-ran-in-2021-blackpool-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43037","title":{"rendered":"They Ran in 2021: Blackpool 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We make a return trip to Beamish for this latest edition of \u201cThey Ran in 2021\u201d as we feature another of the trams which have run in service during this calendar year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Blackpool Marton 31<\/strong> was the tram chosen to resume tram services at Beamish on Saturday 4<sup>th<\/sup> September after a long Covid enforced absence for the popular tram service. The service at Beamish may have been a reduced length of tramway with the section from Foulbridge to the Town past the Events Field not being available requiring maintenance work but its return in September proved to be popular with visitors. <strong>31<\/strong> was used a fair amount in the first couple of months but as temperatures dipped and the weather changes its use started to become less regular.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43038\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43038\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43038\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43038\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43038\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/31-th-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/31-th-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/31-th-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/31-th-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/31-th.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo is of 31 as it approaches the Entrance from the direction of Pockerley with a healthy load of passengers on board. (Photograph by Trevor Hall, 16th September 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We make a return trip to Beamish for this latest edition of \u201cThey Ran in 2021\u201d as we feature another of the trams which have run in service during this calendar year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,98],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43037"}],"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=43037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43039,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43037\/revisions\/43039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}