{"id":47586,"date":"2022-12-14T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=47586"},"modified":"2022-12-11T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T11:39:30","slug":"15-years-apart-blackpool-balloon-700-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=47586","title":{"rendered":"15 Years Apart: Blackpool Balloon 700"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We return to Blackpool for this edition of \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d and its <strong>Balloon 700<\/strong>, a tram which may be in the same livery in both 2007 and 2022 but much else has changed!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47587\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=47587\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47587\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47587\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47587\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1.700-gp-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1.700-gp-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1.700-gp-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1.700-gp-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1.700-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2007 could be found in the popular wartime green and cream livery which it has received as part of its pseudo heritage refurbishment. Featuring twin destination indicators and roof windows the tram had gone back to a pantograph having originally been fitted with a trolley. It looks as if on 2nd September 2007 it has been wet and the pantograph grease has made the tram look a little grubby as it pauses on the way to Pleasure Beach.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_47588\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=47588\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47588\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47588\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47588\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2.700-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2.700-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2.700-gp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2.700-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2.700-gp.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On 3rd June 2022 and 700 is back in wartime green and cream as we see it at Fisherman\u2019s Walk in Fleetwood when operating a Coastal Tour. The tram hasn\u2019t kept this livery throughout the past 15 years as when it was converted to a B fleet Balloon (which saw the installation of the widened doors amongst other features) it firstly received a plain white livery and then the Flexity purple and white livery but went back to these colours in 2021. (Both Photographs by Gareth Prior)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We return to Blackpool for this edition of \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d and its Balloon 700, a tram which may be in the same livery in both 2007 and 2022 but much else has changed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47586"}],"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=47586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47589,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47586\/revisions\/47589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}