{"id":26230,"date":"2019-02-26T18:03:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T18:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26230"},"modified":"2019-02-26T18:03:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T18:03:43","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-coronation-662","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26230","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Coronation 662"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no doubt that one of the most popular classes of trams with enthusiasts in Blackpool is the Coronation Cars and we feature a long-gone member of that class today in our regular look back into the archives.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The tram in the frame here is <strong>Coronation 662<\/strong> which is just making the call at Thornton Gate with a healthy load of passengers waiting to join the tram for a trip into Blackpool; it seems unlikely many of the passengers will want a tram ride all the way to Starr Gate. The photo was taken on 16th May 1970 and those passengers waiting are showing the fashions of the day.<\/p>\n<p>As for the tram, <strong>662<\/strong> was introduced into service as <strong>326<\/strong> in the October of 1953 and by the time this photo was taken it had lost its VAMBAC equipment in favour of more conventional control equipment. <strong>662<\/strong> only had a further five years in service before withdrawal and eventual disposal in 1976.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26231\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=26231\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26231\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26231\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26231\" title=\"662-db\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/662-db-550x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/662-db-550x394.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/662-db-1024x734.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/662-db.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Donald Brooks<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no doubt that one of the most popular classes of trams with enthusiasts in Blackpool is the Coronation Cars and we feature a long-gone member of that class today in our regular look back into the archives.<\/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\/26230"}],"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=26230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26234,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26230\/revisions\/26234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}