{"id":14255,"date":"2016-03-30T19:20:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T18:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14255"},"modified":"2016-03-30T19:20:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T18:20:53","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-brush-622","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14255","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Brush 622"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Picture in Time machine ends up in Blackpool again for our latest image with the year being 1974 and the tram <strong>Brush Railcoach 622<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This view is taken outside Rigby Road Depot on 5th September 1974 and shows <strong>622<\/strong> waiting for its next duty with both destination blinds set for Manchester Square following its previous use. The tram is carrying the Half Green\/Half Cream livery with Orange trolley tower.<\/p>\n<p>Built as <strong>285<\/strong> in 1937 the tram entered service during late July with key milestones in its career seeing the fitting of single indicators in 1975 and then <strong>622<\/strong> received a pantograph during 1991. But probably its biggest \u201cclaim to fame\u201d was when it became the first single deck tram in Blackpool to ever receive an all over advert when it was painted in the iconic Tigeriffic livery for Blackpool Zoo in 1975 (a design it kept until 1980). Withdrawn from service at the end of the 2009 season the tram was never officially preserved (joining the LTT collections as a source of spare parts) and can now be found at Anchorsholme Academy where it once again carries the Tigeriffic livery.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14256\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=14256\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14256\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14256\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14256\" title=\"622-am\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/622-am-550x368.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/622-am-550x368.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/622-am-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/622-am.jpg 1273w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Alasdair MacFarlane<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Picture in Time machine ends up in Blackpool again for our latest image with the year being 1974 and the tram Brush Railcoach 622.<\/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\/14255"}],"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=14255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14258,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14255\/revisions\/14258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}