{"id":61358,"date":"2025-12-22T18:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61358"},"modified":"2025-12-21T21:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T21:42:13","slug":"old-and-new-blackpool-fleetwood-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61358","title":{"rendered":"Old and New \u2013 Blackpool: Fleetwood Ferry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOld and New\u201d continues on the Blackpool Tramway with the latest set of photos coming from Fleetwood Ferry.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61359\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3a.706-gp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61359\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61359\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3a.706-gp-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3a.706-gp-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3a.706-gp-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3a.706-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Back before the Blackpool Tramway was modernised the terminus at Fleetwood saw unloading take place on Bold Street before the trams pulled forward onto the Esplanade to load for their return journeys. And it\u2019s the Esplanade where these two images are taken with this first one from 2nd September 2008, another Fleetwood Market Tuesday. On this day fine weather saw Open Top Balloon 706 \u2013 Princess Alice \u2013 allocated to run a special and as with many Market Tuesday\u2019s it was a case of if its out it goes to Fleetwood! We see the open topper waiting ahead of departure with a special back to Pleasure Beach.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_61360\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3b.003-gp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61360\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3b.003-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3b.003-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3b.003-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3b.003-gp.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then on 20th September 2023 we see Flexity2 003 coasting along the Esplanade with a timetabled service to Starr Gate. At the time 003 was carrying this bright pink advertising livery for Pretty Little Thing \u2013 a far cry from the green and cream fleet livery we saw in the image of 706! As mentioned before there is now no tramstop here with passengers both getting off and on the tram round the corner in Bold Street. (Both Photographs by Gareth Prior)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOld and New\u201d continues on the Blackpool Tramway with the latest set of photos coming from Fleetwood Ferry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61358"}],"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=61358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61361,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61358\/revisions\/61361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}