{"id":47844,"date":"2022-12-24T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=47844"},"modified":"2023-01-01T11:35:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T11:35:10","slug":"15-years-apart-blackpool-boat-600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=47844","title":{"rendered":"15 Years Apart: Blackpool Boat 600"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its 2007 v 2022 again for this next edition of \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d and we are back in Blackpool to take a look at one of the Open Boat Cars.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47845\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=47845\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47845\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47845\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47845\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1.600-gp-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1.600-gp-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1.600-gp-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1.600-gp-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1.600-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Its 4th September 2007 and the prototype Boat Car, 600, is sitting on the centre track at North Pier when operating specials on a warm late summer\u2019s day. It will soon be departing back south through to Pleasure Beach. The tram had sponsorship from the Fylde Tramway Society and featured its original fleet number above the centre entrances.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_47846\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=47846\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47846\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47846\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47846\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2.600-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2.600-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2.600-gp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2.600-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2.600-gp.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moving forward to 2022 \u2013 2nd June \u2013 and Boat 600 retains green and cream but did go through overhaul which resulted in its receiving the front bumpers and halogen headlights. In this shot we see the tram arriving at a temporary stop located at Imperial Hotel when working heritage tours after the Queen\u2019s Jubilee Tram Parade. (Both Photographs by Gareth Prior)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its 2007 v 2022 again for this next edition of \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d and we are back in Blackpool to take a look at one of the Open Boat Cars.<\/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\/47844"}],"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=47844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47931,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47844\/revisions\/47931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}