{"id":56427,"date":"2024-12-13T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56427"},"modified":"2024-12-08T11:44:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T11:44:06","slug":"out-and-about-blackpool-tramway-august-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56427","title":{"rendered":"Out and About: Blackpool Tramway \u2013 August 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201cOut and About\u201d we go to Blackpool to take a look at a couple of Flexity2 trams in operation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56428\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1.015-sh.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56428\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56428\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1.015-sh-550x310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1.015-sh-550x310.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1.015-sh-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1.015-sh.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original batch of 16 Flexity2 trams have now been plying their trade on Blackpool Prom for over 12 years and have very much become part of the furniture as they operate the core service on the tramway. In this photo we see 015 at Cabin.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_56429\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2.015-sh.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56429\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56429\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2.015-sh-550x310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2.015-sh-550x310.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2.015-sh-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2.015-sh.jpg 1267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And then a little bit later we catch up with 015 again as its made its way north to Fleetwood Ferry. Having just departed from the most northerly stop on the tramway its now running along Fleetwood Esplanade as it heads back to Starr Gate. (Both Photographs by Steven Hughes, 23rd August 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201cOut and About\u201d we go to Blackpool to take a look at a couple of Flexity2 trams in operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56427"}],"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=56427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56430,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56427\/revisions\/56430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}