{"id":53403,"date":"2024-04-19T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53403"},"modified":"2024-04-14T09:07:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:07:07","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-balloon-700-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53403","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Balloon 700"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We return to Blackpool for the next few weeks in \u201cPicture in Time\u201d. Once again Donald Brooks is the photographer to start things off on the northern section of the tramway.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It looks like it\u2019s a warm and sunny day in the early summer period as we see <strong>Balloon 700<\/strong> approaching Broadwater with a southbound service to Starr Gate. The driver\u2019s windscreen is open wide to get some air into the cab and it seems that the tram could do with some attention to its paintwork. The flowers are also out in this lovely summer\u2019s day at the seaside.<\/p>\n<p><strong>700<\/strong> is probably a tram which needs very little introduction to Blackpool tram enthusiasts and remains very popular to this day. The original Luxury Dreadnought it was, of course, originally an open topper but was fully enclosed during World War II and has remained in that condition ever since. It may now have received modifications to allow it to run to the modern LRT platforms but its main use continues to be on heritage tours.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53404\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=53404\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53404\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53404\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53404\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/700-db-550x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/700-db-550x352.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/700-db-1024x656.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/700-db-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/700-db.jpg 1287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Donald Brooks, June\/July 1978<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We return to Blackpool for the next few weeks in \u201cPicture in Time\u201d. Once again Donald Brooks is the photographer to start things off on the northern section of the tramway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53403"}],"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=53403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53405,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53403\/revisions\/53405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}