{"id":43204,"date":"2021-12-24T14:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43204"},"modified":"2021-12-22T19:06:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T19:06:18","slug":"they-ran-in-2021-blackpool-boat-600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43204","title":{"rendered":"They Ran in 2021: Blackpool Boat 600"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this latest edition of \u201cThey Ran in 2021\u201d we are off to the seaside as we feature another tram on the Blackpool Tramway.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The chances are if there is fine and sunny weather \u2013 and not so sunny! \u2013 in Blackpool then Heritage Tram Tours will have allocated a Boat Car to the service (which during 2021 remained pre-bookable with a certain type of tram allocated to each service running). The prototype of the class \u2013 <strong>600<\/strong> \u2013 is one of two of this class which was available for service during the year and saw plenty of use during the summer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43205\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43205\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43205\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43205\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43205\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/600-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/600-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/600-gp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/600-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/600-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">600 is seen here pulling forward at North Pier as it works a northbound service to Little Bispham. (Photograph by Gareth Prior, 26th September 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this latest edition of \u201cThey Ran in 2021\u201d we are off to the seaside as we feature another tram on the Blackpool Tramway.<\/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\/43204"}],"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=43204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43206,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43204\/revisions\/43206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}