{"id":26371,"date":"2019-03-05T18:14:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26371"},"modified":"2019-03-05T18:14:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:14:03","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-coronations-650-653","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26371","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Coronations 650 &#038; 653"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From last week\u2019s look at a Blackpool Coronation Car running in service we have a sadder image this week as we see two of the class being scrapped in Thornton Gate Yard.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The two trams pictured here are believed to be <strong>650<\/strong> and <strong>653<\/strong> which both met their ends at Thornton Gate during May 1970 and they were captured in the process of this work taking place on the 16th of that month. Neither of these trams ever lost their VAMBAC equipment whilst in service and were both taken out of use in October 1969 along with <strong>645<\/strong>, <strong>646<\/strong> and <strong>651<\/strong> \u2013 all of which would also be scrapped at Thornton Gate.<\/p>\n<p>As can be seen in this image stripping of panels and glazing has started on the trams with the rearmost of the two seemingly further advanced towards the end of its career as a tram. Various parts which have been stripped from the trams are scattered in the vicinity.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26372\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=26372\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26372\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26372\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26372\" title=\"650+653-db\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/650+653-db-550x406.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/650+653-db-550x406.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/650+653-db-1024x756.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/650+653-db.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Donald Brooks<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From last week\u2019s look at a Blackpool Coronation Car running in service we have a sadder image this week as we see two of the class being scrapped in Thornton Gate Yard.<\/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\/26371"}],"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=26371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26374,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26371\/revisions\/26374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}