{"id":11342,"date":"2015-05-29T19:42:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T19:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=11342"},"modified":"2015-05-30T08:46:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T08:46:02","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-boat-604","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=11342","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Boat 604"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s off to Blackpool again for the latest instalment in our \u201cPicture in Time\u201d series. This time we go back to 16th August 1981 and catch up with a member of the popular Boat cars \u2013 <strong>604<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Originally entering service in August 1934 Open Boat Car <strong>230<\/strong> was once one of a 12 strong class of trams which over the years has gradually been whittled down until today when there are just three of the fleet left in Blackpool. Renumbered as <strong>604<\/strong> in 1968 the tram had received windscreens in the 1950s and at the time of these photos it was carrying a rather plain green and cream livery. It continued to carry green and cream until December 1989 when it was to receive a radical new look with a red and white livery. It carried these colours until 1999 when a return to green and cream followed. Remaining as part of the heritage fleet upon the upgrading of the tramway <strong>604<\/strong> was repainted into the 1970s green and cream livery as seen in these photos, returned to its original number of <strong>230<\/strong> and also received the name George Formby.<\/p>\n<p>In the first photo we see <strong>604<\/strong> on the centre track at Tower on 16th August 1981 waiting time to return with a special to Pleasure Beach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=11343\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11343\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11343\" title=\"1.604-rog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1.604-rog-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1.604-rog-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1.604-rog-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1.604-rog.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a> And then later on the same day we catch up with <strong>604<\/strong> on Pleasure Beach loop with <strong>Balloon 724<\/strong> for company.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11344\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=11344\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11344\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11344\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11344\" title=\"2.604-rog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2.604-rog-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2.604-rog-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2.604-rog-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2.604-rog.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Both Photographs taken by Ralph Oakes-Garnett)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>This article has been edited since originally published. Thanks to those who sent corrections in.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s off to Blackpool again for the latest instalment in our \u201cPicture in Time\u201d series. This time we go back to 16th August 1981 and catch up with a member of the popular Boat cars \u2013 604.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11342"}],"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=11342"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11353,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11342\/revisions\/11353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}