{"id":8645,"date":"2014-08-08T20:22:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T19:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=8645"},"modified":"2014-08-08T20:22:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T19:22:46","slug":"in-pictures-box-40-reunites-with-balloon-711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=8645","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Box 40 reunites with Balloon 711"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t you just hate it when you go on holiday and then come across someone you work with? Well that is exactly what happened for <strong>Blackpool &amp; Fleetwood Box 40<\/strong> when it was operating at Crich for the seventh time in eight days on Friday 8th August as <strong>Blackpool Balloon 711<\/strong>, also visiting the home of the National Tramway Museum this year, made a rare appearance in service allowing the first chance to capture these two trams together on the mainline. The third tram on this day was <strong>Glasgow 22<\/strong>, itself a tram which hasn\u2019t seen a huge amount of use during 2014. Photos from Hazel Quarmby.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8646\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=8646\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8646\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8646\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8646\" title=\"40+711-1hq\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/40+711-1hq-550x435.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/40+711-1hq-550x435.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/40+711-1hq-1024x810.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/40+711-1hq.jpg 1192w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Box 40 passes Balloon 711 (with Berlin 223 006-4 for company).<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8647\" style=\"width: 413px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=8647\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8647\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8647\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8647\" title=\"40+711-2hq\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/40+711-2hq-403x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/40+711-2hq-403x550.jpg 403w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/40+711-2hq.jpg 573w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">40 and 711 pass outside the depot. (Both Photos: Hazel Quarmby)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t you just hate it when you go on holiday and then come across someone you work with? Well that is exactly what happened for Blackpool &amp; Fleetwood Box 40 when it was operating at Crich for the seventh time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=8645\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645"}],"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=8645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8650,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645\/revisions\/8650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}