{"id":57057,"date":"2025-01-27T18:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=57057"},"modified":"2025-01-26T09:07:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T09:07:39","slug":"trams-blackpool-31-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=57057","title":{"rendered":"Trams &#038;: Blackpool 31 &#038; bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have another edition of \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d for you as we feature a picture from Beamish.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is a fairly typical picture taken at Beamish\u2019s Entrance stop and shows a tram heading round the tramway in a clockwise direction as a bus goes round the other way. The tram probably needs very little introduction as it has been a stalwart of the service at Beamish for many years. It is of course <strong>Blackpool 31<\/strong> which is always popular in good weather and has also made a couple of trips back to Blackpool since restoration as well as one to the Heaton Park Tramway.<\/p>\n<p>The bus was built in 1987 and is a replica of a 1913 Daimler CC, a number of which were used by Gateshead &amp; District Tramways to provide feeder services to the tramway.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57058\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/31bus-th.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57058\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-57058\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/31bus-th-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/31bus-th-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/31bus-th-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/31bus-th.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Trevor Hall, 19th May 2024<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have another edition of \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d for you as we feature a picture from Beamish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57057"}],"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=57057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57059,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57057\/revisions\/57059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}