{"id":20773,"date":"2018-03-01T19:02:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T19:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=20773"},"modified":"2018-03-01T19:02:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T19:02:13","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-jubilee-761-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=20773","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Jubilee 761"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first of two one person operated trams rebuilt in Blackpool\u2019s own workshops is the feature of Picture in Time today as we take a look at <strong>Jubilee 761<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>761<\/strong> was rebuilt from <strong>Balloon 725<\/strong> (which had been withdrawn from service in 1971) and entered service in its new one person operated condition on 2nd July 1979. Featuring a single entrance and exit at each end of the tram (which turned out to be a design flaw rectified for the second rebuild which saw a centre exit fitted) the idea was that costs could be saved by only have a single crew member for 100 passengers (instead of the usual three crew members); a major advantage at a time when there were still some who thought the tramway should be closed. Although often not being used as a true one person car <strong>761<\/strong> proved to be an invaluable member of the fleet remaining in service right up until the last day of traditional tram operation in 2011. After a spell under the ownership of the Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust it is now back at Rigby Road as part of Heritage Tram Tours albeit not currently operational.<\/p>\n<p>This view taken on 5th April 1980 shows <strong>761<\/strong> at Fleetwood Ferry running a service to Pleasure Beach. It has a Red and White liveried OMO for company.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20774\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=20774\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20774\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20774\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20774\" title=\"761-sc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/761-sc-550x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/761-sc-550x373.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/761-sc-1024x696.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/761-sc.jpg 1228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Stephen Cobb<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first of two one person operated trams rebuilt in Blackpool\u2019s own workshops is the feature of Picture in Time today as we take a look at Jubilee 761.<\/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\/20773"}],"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=20773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20776,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20773\/revisions\/20776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}