{"id":47590,"date":"2022-12-14T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=47590"},"modified":"2022-12-11T11:40:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T11:40:29","slug":"the-number-20-blackpool-balloon-720","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=47590","title":{"rendered":"The Number 20: Blackpool Balloon 720"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We continue looking at trams with a connection to the number 20 by heading to Blackpool for an image of one of the iconic Balloon cars.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tram: Blackpool Balloon 720<\/p>\n<p>Built: 1935<\/p>\n<p>Qualification for series: Its got the number 20 in its number!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47591\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=47591\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47591\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47591\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47591\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/720-gp-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/720-gp-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/720-gp-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/720-gp-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/720-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Although still in Blackpool today, Balloon 720 hasn\u2019t operated since 2011 despite receiving the B fleet modifications \u2013 one of nine trams to have been converted. It may not be the twentieth of the class (that honour falls to 719) but as it has the number 20 in its number we\u2019ve decided to treat it to a photo considering it gets featured very little nowadays. This image shows its pre-B fleet days on 10th September 2005 when the tram advertised Eclipse at the Pleasure Beach. The location is North Pier. (Photograph by Gareth Prior)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continue looking at trams with a connection to the number 20 by heading to Blackpool for an image of one of the iconic Balloon cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47590"}],"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=47590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47592,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47590\/revisions\/47592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}