{"id":52833,"date":"2024-03-01T18:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=52833"},"modified":"2024-02-25T08:45:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T08:45:30","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-31-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=52833","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week \u201cPicture in Time\u201d heads to Beamish as we feature one of the trams which has been a long standing member of the operational fleet.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We are of course talking about <strong>Blackpool 31<\/strong> \u2013 a Marton Box Car which was transferred to Beamish in 1984 after a second career on its home tramway as a works vehicle. Restored over three years the tram has been in service most years since and has even enjoyed a few trips away from Beamish, on a couple of occasions to Blackpool and a memorable spell at the Heaton Park Tramway as well.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when the trams were all carrying local advertising we see <strong>31<\/strong> here at the Entrance on a day which isn\u2019t exactly screaming out at us as a day to enjoy a tram ride on an open topper!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_52834\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=52834\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52834\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52834\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52834\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/31-kj-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/31-kj-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/31-kj-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/31-kj-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/31-kj.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-52834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Ken Jones, 18th August 2008<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week \u201cPicture in Time\u201d heads to Beamish as we feature one of the trams which has been a long standing member of the operational fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52833"}],"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=52833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52835,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52833\/revisions\/52835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}