{"id":43383,"date":"2022-01-19T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43383"},"modified":"2022-01-15T17:50:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T17:50:45","slug":"out-and-about-heritage-trams-in-blackpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43383","title":{"rendered":"Out and About: Heritage trams in Blackpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the majority of this series we are \u201cOut and About\u201d taking a look at modern trams running but we have a bit of a change today as we feature heritage trams running in Blackpool.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43384\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43384\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43384\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43384\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43384\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1.723-bt-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1.723-bt-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1.723-bt-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1.723-bt-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1.723-bt.jpg 1286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Balloon 723 received this vinyl wrap livery for The Magical Express Tour back in November \u2013 the first full vinyl wrap advert on heritage tram for over 10 years. The Balloon Car (which previously had a coat of 1980s green and cream) is seen just arriving at Pleasure Beach with a run of The Magical Express Tour.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_43385\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43385\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43385\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43385\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2.723-bt-550x410.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2.723-bt-550x410.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2.723-bt-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2.723-bt-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2.723-bt.jpg 1299w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">723 sits on Pleasure Beach loop.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_43386\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43386\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43386\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43386\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43386\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/3.rigby-bt-550x393.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/3.rigby-bt-550x393.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/3.rigby-bt-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/3.rigby-bt-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/3.rigby-bt.jpg 1294w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meanwhile down at Rigby Road Depot \u2013 or Tramtown if you prefer \u2013 and we take a look at Brush 631, Balloon 717, Rebuilt Balloon 707 and Coronation 663 waiting for their next duties, which for three of them will be a lot sooner than the other! (All Photographs by blackpool_trams, 18th December 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the majority of this series we are \u201cOut and About\u201d taking a look at modern trams running but we have a bit of a change today as we feature heritage trams running in Blackpool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43383"}],"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=43383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43387,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43383\/revisions\/43387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}