Picture in Time: Blackpool Centenary 646

Our archive photo series is back with another helping from Blackpool. This time around we are taking a look at Centenary 646 in the early 1990s.

646 was the penultimate of the East Lancashire Coachbuilders built trams to arrive in Blackpool with its arrival being on 29th September 1987 – some two years after the Centenary after which is which named had taken place on the tramway. After commissioning it entered service on the second day of December 1987 and soon settled into the regular pattern of operation for the Centenary Cars (which if you were being unfair in their early years consisted of lots of failures!). The Centenary Cars probably became synonymous with all over adverts during their careers but when this photo was taken at Pleasure Beach on 31st August 1993 646 was still in fleet livery and would not receive its first advert for another two years. Today 646 is the only Centenary not to still exist having been scrapped following vandalism during post-sale storage.

Photograph by Ralph Oakes-Garnett

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