{"id":11196,"date":"2015-05-12T19:41:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=11196"},"modified":"2015-05-12T19:41:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:41:56","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-electric-locomotive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=11196","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Electric Locomotive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The subject of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d today is probably one of the stranger \u201ctrams\u201d preserved as part of the national collection \u2013 the <strong>Blackpool Electric Locomotive<\/strong>. To anyone today the locomotive is well known in its green livery but back in 1990 it was still carrying a red livery.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Built by English Electric in 1927 the locomotive was obtained to haul coal wagons between Copse Road and Thornton Gate sidings and carried on in this role until 1949. It remained in the stock of Blackpool Corporation Transport until 1965 and was then preserved with a move to Crich taking place in January 1966. It was pushed into use almost straight away proving itself to be a very useful acquisition but during 1974 it was taken out of use. Another five year period of use followed from 1978 and then in 1983 it was moved to Bolton for a full restoration to take place. This was completed and the locomotive returned to Crich the following year where it once again entered service and has been used every year since.<\/p>\n<p>The photo dates from 19th August 1990 and shows the locomotive outside the depot gates carrying the red livery.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11197\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=11197\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11197\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11197\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11197\" title=\"loco-bh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/loco-bh-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/loco-bh-550x309.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/loco-bh-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/loco-bh.jpg 1201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photograph by Bob Hodges)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The subject of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d today is probably one of the stranger \u201ctrams\u201d preserved as part of the national collection \u2013 the Blackpool Electric Locomotive. To anyone today the locomotive is well known in its green livery but back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=11196\">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":[8,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196"}],"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=11196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11199,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196\/revisions\/11199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}