{"id":10594,"date":"2015-03-13T20:38:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10594"},"modified":"2015-03-13T20:38:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:38:57","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-brush-621","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10594","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Brush 621"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Blackpool Brush 621<\/strong> enjoying a rare weekend in the spotlight last weekend as part of the Beamish\u2019s Power from the Past event what better tram to feature in tonight\u2019s Picture in Time feature? We head back over 20 years to 1993 when although the Blackpool Tramway wasn\u2019t really in its heyday anymore was still a very different beast to that which was all know today.<\/p>\n

As always let\u2019s start with a brief history of the tram which was, of course, the first of the Brush Railcoaches being built in Loughborough during 1937 and then entered service in Blackpool on 20th July 1937 numbered 284<\/strong>. The 1968 renumbering saw the tram take on the number 621<\/strong> and over the next couple of decades it was to receive modernisation including the fitting of single indicators at the end of 1980 (the last of the surviving Brush Cars to receive these) and then halfway through 1991 it lost its trolley pole in favour of a pantograph. It has carried five different advertising liveries during its career starting off in 1984 when it received a Pleasure Beach advert and ending in 2000 when it received the all over advert it still carries today for the Hot Ice Show \u2013 the third time it has advertised this production.<\/p>\n

Although many of you reading this will mainly remember 621<\/strong> for its all over adverts \u2013 it last carried the green and cream in mid 1995 \u2013 our photo today features the tram carrying fleet livery. It is seen here approaching Cleveleys with a service for Starr Gate on 31st August 1993.<\/p>\n

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(Photo by Ralph Oakes-Garnett)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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