{"id":12598,"date":"2015-09-22T19:13:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T18:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=12598"},"modified":"2015-09-22T19:13:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T18:13:55","slug":"picture-in-time-sheffield-510-blackpool-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=12598","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Sheffield 510 &#038; Blackpool 49"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1968 the Tramway Museum at Crich held their very first Transport Extravaganza. As previously reported in \u201cPicture in Time\u201d <strong>Prague 180<\/strong> arrived during the build-up to this event but that was only one of the stars of the event and today this series features an image of two of the other trams involved: <strong>Sheffield 510<\/strong> and <strong>Blackpool 49<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This view was taken on 1st September 1968 \u2013 which was actually the August Bank Holiday weekend in 1968 as at this time this public holiday was celebrated on the weekend of the last Saturday of August \u2013 and is taken from the bank roughly where the Bowes Lyon Bridge is now situated. We are looking towards the depots and Town End and the two trams which are the most notable are two of the early stalwarts of the service in <strong>Sheffield 510<\/strong> and <strong>Blackpool 49<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>510<\/strong> is of course part of the operational fleet today and when this photo was taken was in its first bout of operation at Crich between 1964 and 1972. It retains the original Last Tram livery and is heading north towards the camera. Note that ahead of it is just standard track and not the interlaced track we see today. Immediately behind <strong>510<\/strong> is <strong>Blackpool 49<\/strong> which at this time was in Blackpool Corporation Transport Red and White livery rather than the Green and Cream it carries today. As with the Sheffield car <strong>49<\/strong> had entered service at Crich in 1964 but was to remain in the serviceable fleet for an extra year until 1973. However unlike <strong>510<\/strong> <strong>Blackpool 49<\/strong> is no longer serviceable having last run in 1992 and is seemingly quite a way down the list of trams to be returned to service.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12599\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=12599\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12599\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12599\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12599\" title=\"Crich 1st September 1968\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Crich-1st-September-1968-550x521.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Crich-1st-September-1968-550x521.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Crich-1st-September-1968-1024x971.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Crich-1st-September-1968.jpg 1084w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Peter Narramore<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1968 the Tramway Museum at Crich held their very first Transport Extravaganza. As previously reported in \u201cPicture in Time\u201d Prague 180 arrived during the build-up to this event but that was only one of the stars of the event &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=12598\">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\/12598"}],"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=12598"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12603,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12598\/revisions\/12603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}