{"id":54313,"date":"2024-06-23T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54313"},"modified":"2024-06-23T08:26:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T07:26:07","slug":"trams-blackpool-700-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54313","title":{"rendered":"Trams &#038;: Blackpool 700 &#038; bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d we are heading back to the Blackpool Tramway.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With the Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours Coastal Tour to Fleetwood including a 40 minute break for the tram on the loop on Fleetwood Esplanade there are often opportunities to capture a tram along with a bus and that is the case in the below photo taken in September 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Balloon 700<\/strong> was allocated to operate the Coastal Tour and is seen here waiting on the loop for its departure time (passengers would re-board the tram around the corner on Pharos Street) allowing traffic to pass on both sides. And some of that traffic is a Blackpool Transport single deck bus which is operating a line 1 service to the Fleetwood Affinity Outlet. The bus is an ADL Enviro200.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54314\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/700bus-gp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54314\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54314\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/700bus-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/700bus-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/700bus-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/700bus-gp.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Gareth Prior, 22nd September 2023<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d we are heading back to the Blackpool Tramway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54313"}],"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=54313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54315,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54313\/revisions\/54315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}