{"id":9230,"date":"2014-09-24T15:39:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T14:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=9230"},"modified":"2014-09-24T15:39:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T14:39:22","slug":"new-blackpool-tram-book-%e2%80%9cstarr-gate-to-the-tower%e2%80%9d-set-to-be-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=9230","title":{"rendered":"New Blackpool tram book \u201cStarr Gate to the Tower\u201d set to be launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Blackpool tram book by acclaimed writer Brian Turner is set to be launched before the launch of <strong>Balloon 701<\/strong> on Friday 26th September at the Blackpool Tram Shop \u2013 providing that copies arrive there in time! Brian will be at the shop between 1530 and 1615 to sign copies before <strong>701<\/strong>\u2019s maiden trip following the completion of its repaint.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u201cStarr Gate to the Tower: The Blackpool Tramway since 1960 Volume One\u201d is one of the first titles to be released under Capital Transport\u2019s new Rails imprint for non-London railway and tram titles. The book features 400 photographs \u2013 nearly all of them colour \u2013 which show how the Blackpool tramway developed from a precarious survivor in 1960 into the age of the Supertram. This first volume covers the section of tramway between Starr Gate and Tower with the remainder of the route due to be covered in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The book was scheduled to arrive at the publishers warehouse this week and there should be copies at the Blackpool Tram Shop by Friday but you are advised to check beforehand if making a specific journey for the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Blackpool tram book by acclaimed writer Brian Turner is set to be launched before the launch of Balloon 701 on Friday 26th September at the Blackpool Tram Shop \u2013 providing that copies arrive there in time! Brian will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=9230\">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":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230"}],"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=9230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9231,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions\/9231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}