{"id":43121,"date":"2021-12-30T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43121"},"modified":"2021-12-22T18:13:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T18:13:19","slug":"15-years-apart-blackpool-balloon-701-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43121","title":{"rendered":"15 Years Apart: Blackpool Balloon 701"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We return to Blackpool for this edition of \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d as we feature the last of our quintet of Balloon Cars we have seen in the series.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This time we focus on the first of the production models \u2013 <strong>701<\/strong>. As we have seen throughout this series out first image comes from 2006 and shows <strong>701<\/strong> just approaching Cleveleys. Don\u2019t be fooled by the destination blind stating Starr Gate \u2013 it has just been changed ahead of its next journey south. The date is 7<sup>th<\/sup> September 2006 and <strong>701<\/strong> was wearing this \u201cbusy\u201d all over advert for Palm Beach Hotel (the only full advertising livery to ever be carried by the tram, from 2005 to 2008).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43122\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43122\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-43122\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.701-gp-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.701-gp-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.701-gp-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.701-gp-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.701-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then on 24<sup>th<\/sup> September 2021 we catch-up with <strong>701<\/strong> again as it heads north passing Gynn Square with a heritage service which will head around Little Bispham loop and then back south again. The tram is now in this red and white Routemaster livery which was reapplied during 2014 having previously been carried by the tram in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43123\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43123\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43123\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43123\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43123\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.701-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.701-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.701-gp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.701-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.701-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We return to Blackpool for this edition of \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d as we feature the last of our quintet of Balloon Cars we have seen in the series.<\/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\/43121"}],"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=43121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43124,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43121\/revisions\/43124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}