{"id":45884,"date":"2022-07-24T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45884"},"modified":"2022-07-23T21:34:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T20:34:39","slug":"trams-blackpool-227-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45884","title":{"rendered":"Trams &#038;: Blackpool 227 &#038; coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re off to the coast for this edition of \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d as we feature a heritage tram alongside a much more modern coach in Blackpool.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you ever head to Blackpool one thing you are likely to notice is that there is a big variety of coaches in town from across the UK, which gives plenty of opportunity to capture a \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d image \u2013 especially outside hotels as they load or unload their passengers. And so it was on 25<sup>th<\/sup> September 2021 at Cabin on Queens Promenade. As <strong>Boat Car 227<\/strong> heads north away from the heritage stop with a service which will head up to Little Bispham, round the loop and then back south we see on the main road a brightly coloured coach heading south.<\/p>\n<p>That coach has the reg no. BJ16 KXX and is in an anonymous bright orange livery. A Mercedes Benz Tourismo this was new in 2016 and was originally operated by Shearings Holidays although now seems to have moved on to a new operator.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45885\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=45885\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45885\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45885\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45885\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/227coach-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/227coach-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/227coach-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/227coach-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/227coach.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re off to the coast for this edition of \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d as we feature a heritage tram alongside a much more modern coach in Blackpool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45884"}],"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=45884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45886,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45884\/revisions\/45886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}