{"id":29603,"date":"2019-08-29T18:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=29603"},"modified":"2019-08-29T17:49:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T16:49:27","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-marton-vambac-11-blackpool-standard-159","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=29603","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Marton VAMBAC 11 &#038; Blackpool Standard 159"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only do we stay at the East Anglia Transport Museum this week but we also feature the same tram as we saw last week, although this time it is joined by a fellow Blackpool tram. The two trams in question are <strong>Marton VAMBAC 11<\/strong> and <strong>Standard 159<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The below photo was taken at some point between 1975 and 1982 and is at the Chapel Road terminus \u2013 still a very familiar starting point for tram journeys at the museum today once you have gone through the entrance. The big difference today is the lack of development around the tram, both within the museum and outside, but it does illustrate how far this museum has come in the intervening 40ish years.<\/p>\n<p>As for the trams we wrote all about <strong>11<\/strong> last week so this time we can concentrate a bit more on <strong>159<\/strong> which has been one of the mainstays of the operational fleet ever since it opened. At this time it was in a much simplified green and cream livery style with no lining out.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29604\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=29604\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29604\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29604\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29604\" title=\"11+159-tm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/11+159-tm-550x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/11+159-tm-550x360.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/11+159-tm-1024x671.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/11+159-tm.jpg 1295w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Tim Major<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only do we stay at the East Anglia Transport Museum this week but we also feature the same tram as we saw last week, although this time it is joined by a fellow Blackpool tram. The two trams in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=29603\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29603"}],"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=29603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29607,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29603\/revisions\/29607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}