{"id":31445,"date":"2019-12-12T14:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31445"},"modified":"2019-12-08T10:54:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T10:54:08","slug":"they-ran-in-2019-blackpool-centenary-648","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31445","title":{"rendered":"They Ran in 2019: Blackpool Centenary 648"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again it is Blackpool we head to for the latest instalment of \u201cThey Ran in 2019\u201d \u2013 the tram is <strong>Centenary 648<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->By no means the most popular tram in the heritage fleet, <strong>Centenary 648<\/strong> still plays a vital role and for much of 2019 has been the only operational one person operated tram in the heritage fleet with <strong>642<\/strong> being absent with a fault. Mainly seeing use during gold weekends the tram has also occasionally been used on the regular Promenade tours.<\/p>\n<p>Our first photo shows <strong>648<\/strong> standing at Bold Street, Fleetwood on 26th May 2019 having just arrived with a heritage service from Pleasure Beach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=31446\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31446\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-31446\" title=\"1.648-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.648-gp-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.648-gp-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.648-gp-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.648-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Then in this second photo we see <strong>648<\/strong> at the southbound North Pier\/Tower heritage stop on 28th September 2019.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31447\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=31447\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31447\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31447\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31447\" title=\"2.648-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.648-gp-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.648-gp-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.648-gp-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.648-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again it is Blackpool we head to for the latest instalment of \u201cThey Ran in 2019\u201d \u2013 the tram is Centenary 648.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31445"}],"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=31445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31449,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31445\/revisions\/31449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}