{"id":18850,"date":"2017-10-05T20:01:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T19:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=18850"},"modified":"2021-02-13T11:39:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T11:39:00","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-brush-621-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=18850","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Brush 621"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this Blackpool edition of Picture in Time we feature the original Brush Railcoach \u2013 <strong>621<\/strong> as we know it today or <strong>284<\/strong> as originally numbered.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Entering service in July 1937 <strong>284<\/strong> was the first of a 20 strong class of single deck railcoaches ordered from Brush and constructed in their famous Loughborough works. Over the years the trams underwent various modernisation with some of the most noticeable exterior changes seeing the fitting of single destination indicators (November 1980 for <strong>621<\/strong>) and the addition of a pantograph (June 1991). Having been renumbered <strong>621<\/strong> in 1968 the tram first lost fleet livery in 1984 when it received a design for the Pleasure Beach. Several other designs followed over the years \u2013 plus a period in green and cream \u2013 before Pleasure Beach returned to the tram in 1997 to advertise their popular Hot Ice show. Two separate designs were carried for Hot Ice, the first utilising contravision, and the second a simpler design leaving the windows clear. Withdrawn from service on 30th October 2004 the tram was initially secured for preservation by the Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust and was stored for a time at Kirkham Prison. It then moved to Beamish having been acquired by a group of enthusiasts but returned home to Rigby Road in December 2016. With the 80th anniversary of the Brush Railcoach coming in 2017 it was announced during March that <strong>621<\/strong> would be returned to service and it entered the workshops in April for a start on an overhaul for the tram. Following the completion of the works <strong>621<\/strong> re-entered service on 22nd September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>In these views we see <strong>621<\/strong> in its final all over advert for Hot Ice in 2003. This first image is at Starr Gate and shows the tram preparing to depart with a full length trip to Fleetwood on 12th September 2003. Note that the advertising vinyls are missing from this end of the tram following the replacement of panels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=38005\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38005\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-38005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1.621-gp-550x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1.621-gp-550x532.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1.621-gp-768x743.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1.621-gp.jpg 772w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then later on the same day we see <strong>621<\/strong> at Bispham continuing a journey to Fleetwood. This photo shows the end of the tram with the full advert still in place.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38006\" style=\"width: 407px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=38006\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38006\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38006\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2.621-gp-397x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2.621-gp-397x550.jpg 397w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2.621-gp.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Blackpool edition of Picture in Time we feature the original Brush Railcoach \u2013 621 as we know it today or 284 as originally numbered.<\/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\/18850"}],"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=18850"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38007,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18850\/revisions\/38007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}