{"id":47864,"date":"2023-01-01T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=47864"},"modified":"2022-12-23T14:28:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T14:28:35","slug":"15-years-apart-blackpool-balloon-715-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=47864","title":{"rendered":"15 Years Apart: Blackpool Balloon 715"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! We enter a new year with all the excitement and anticipation that may bring but before we look too far ahead we have one final edition of \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d. Its Blackpool again that is featured as we view <strong>Balloon 715<\/strong> in 2007 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47865\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=47865\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47865\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47865\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47865\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1.715-gp-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1.715-gp-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1.715-gp-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1.715-gp-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1.715-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2007, 715 was still in a plain white livery having lost advertising vinyls for Pleasure Beach\u2019s Mystique show at the end of 2005. It has now at least received between deck adverts for Freeport Fleetwood but the plain white was still dominating the tram with the grime of operating in all weather showing. On 7th September 2007 the tram is heading to Starr Gate when photographed at Gynn Square.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_47866\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=47866\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47866\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47866\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47866\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2.715-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2.715-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2.715-gp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2.715-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2.715-gp.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">715 is now in a coat of 1970s green and cream fleet livery and is seen here on 3rd June 2022 at Cleveleys when working a Coastal Tour to Fleetwood. The tram \u2013 now owned by the Fylde Transport Trust \u2013 has an advert for Blackpool Zoo between decks on this side. 2022 would be the last year of operation for this tram with it withdrawn after a farewell tour on 19th November. (Both Photographs by Gareth Prior)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! We enter a new year with all the excitement and anticipation that may bring but before we look too far ahead we have one final edition of \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d. Its Blackpool again that is featured as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=47864\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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\/47864"}],"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=47864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47867,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47864\/revisions\/47867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}