{"id":43097,"date":"2021-12-24T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43097"},"modified":"2021-12-22T17:19:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T17:19:06","slug":"15-years-apart-blackpool-balloon-723-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43097","title":{"rendered":"15 Years Apart: Blackpool Balloon 723"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This edition of \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d is taking a look at another tram in Blackpool.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As with many of the Blackpool trams we have featured in this series there has been a livery change over the 15 years for <strong>Balloon 723<\/strong> \u2013 with its latest new livery only coming relatively recently. But starting on 4<sup>th<\/sup> September 2006 and we see <strong>723<\/strong> at Bispham when working a service through to Starr Gate. The advert being carried on the tram was for McDonalds which was only applied in June 2006 and would be a one year only contract.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43098\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43098\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43098\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43098\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43098\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.723-gp-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.723-gp-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.723-gp-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.723-gp-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.723-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n<p>27<sup>th<\/sup> November 2021 and <strong>723<\/strong> had only just received a new all over advert for The Magical Express Tour \u2013 a new tour introduced in conjunction with the Christmas by the Sea event taking place in Blackpool over the festive period. This advert replaced a coat of 1980s green and cream fleet livery which the tram had been in for the past few years and was the first full new all over advert on a heritage tram since the end of traditional tram operations. This photo was taken at Manchester Square.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43099\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43099\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43099\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43099\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43099\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.723-ta-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.723-ta-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.723-ta-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.723-ta-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.723-ta.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Tony Armitage<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This edition of \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d is taking a look at another tram in Blackpool.<\/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\/43097"}],"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=43097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43100,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43097\/revisions\/43100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}