{"id":43662,"date":"2022-02-09T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43662"},"modified":"2022-02-05T14:38:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T14:38:33","slug":"out-and-about-heritage-trams-on-tour-in-blackpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43662","title":{"rendered":"Out and About: Heritage trams on tour in Blackpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours started their 2022 programme of tours on Saturday 8<sup>th<\/sup> January with both Coastal and Promenade Tours now running on selected dates throughout 2022. In this latest \u201cOut and About\u201d we see the tram in use for the first day of tours.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43663\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43663\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43663\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43663\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43663\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/700-th-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/700-th-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/700-th-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/700-th-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/700-th.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And that tram needs no introduction as it was Balloon 700. Repainted over summer 2021 into a new coat of wartime green and cream fleet livery \u2013 replacing its purple and white modern livery \u2013 the tram finally entered service during December 2021 and was used on a couple of occasions before it was allocated to Promenade and Coastal Tours on 8th January 2021. Although keeping all of its B fleet modifications 700 certainly looks the heritage part now and is seen here waiting at a damp North Pier and Tower heritage stop before embarking on its Coastal Tour to Fleetwood. (Photograph by Trevor Hall, 8th January 2022)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours started their 2022 programme of tours on Saturday 8th January with both Coastal and Promenade Tours now running on selected dates throughout 2022. In this latest \u201cOut and About\u201d we see the tram in use for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43662\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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\/43662"}],"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=43662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43664,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43662\/revisions\/43664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}