{"id":47253,"date":"2022-11-27T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=47253"},"modified":"2022-11-27T10:29:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T10:29:31","slug":"trams-blackpool-balloon-715-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=47253","title":{"rendered":"Trams &#038;: Blackpool Balloon 715 &#038; bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d is in Fleetwood as we feature the now withdrawn <strong>Balloon Car 715<\/strong> alongside a modern day Blackpool Transport bus.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This image was captured on 23<sup>rd<\/sup> September 2022 when <strong>Balloon 715<\/strong> was running a Coastal Tour from North Pier to Fleetwood and back. As part of the timetable this included a 40 minute break in Fleetwood for those on the tour to do what they like in Fleetwood \u2013 in this case stand and wait and take some more photos!<\/p>\n<p>Stabled on Fleetwood Esplanade as <strong>715<\/strong> waits to return to Blackpool it is passed by one of Blackpool Transport\u2019s current fleet of Palladium branded buses. Carrying the fleet number 438 this bus is an ADL Enviro400 City. On this day it was working on line 14 with it just starting its return trip to Blackpool in this shot.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47254\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=47254\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47254\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47254\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47254\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/715bus-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/715bus-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/715bus-gp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/715bus-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/715bus-gp.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Gareth Prior, 23rd September 2022<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d is in Fleetwood as we feature the now withdrawn Balloon Car 715 alongside a modern day Blackpool Transport bus.<\/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\/47253"}],"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=47253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47255,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47253\/revisions\/47255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}