{"id":30321,"date":"2019-10-08T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=30321"},"modified":"2019-10-08T13:00:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T12:00:20","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-centenary-648-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=30321","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Centenary 648"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staying in 1990 for this week\u2019s Picture in Time image from Blackpool we feature another one person operated tram but this time of the second generation of vehicles \u2013 <strong>Centenary 648<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Centenary 648<\/strong> was originally built as <strong>651<\/strong> which was a testbed for experimental GEC equipment but after these tests were concluded it was subsumed into the main Blackpool fleet and re-entered service as <strong>648<\/strong> in 1990 and it is that same year that we view the tram in the below image. The tram is just passing the old and highly recognisable Lewis\u2019s building between Tower and North Pier and is working a service north to Fleetwood. The tram is in fleet livery as carried by all Centenary Cars when new.<\/p>\n<p>As <strong>651<\/strong> the tram had entered service for the first time in July 1985 and remained in service \u2013 after a sympathetic rebuild in 2006 \u2013 until the end of traditional tram operation in 2011. Originally planned to become part of the national collection at Crich this plan never came to fruition because of space issues but it was retained as a tram of interest in the heritage fleet and remains a valuable member of that fleet today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30322\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=30322\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30322\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30322\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30322\" title=\"648-bw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/648-bw-550x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/648-bw-550x360.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/648-bw-1024x671.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/648-bw.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Bob Woolnough<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staying in 1990 for this week\u2019s Picture in Time image from Blackpool we feature another one person operated tram but this time of the second generation of vehicles \u2013 Centenary 648.<\/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\/30321"}],"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=30321"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30332,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30321\/revisions\/30332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}