{"id":31641,"date":"2019-12-19T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31641"},"modified":"2019-12-15T11:38:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T11:38:47","slug":"15-years-apart-blackpool-railcoach-680","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31641","title":{"rendered":"15 Years Apart: Blackpool Railcoach 680"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blackpool is again the location for our archive comparison series \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d today. This time we feature another tram which has since been preserved although for this tram it has returned to Blackpool on loan \u2013 it is <strong>Railcoach 680<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>680<\/strong> is another tram which has gone from advert livery to fleet livery over the past 15 years with 2004 seeing it carrying this bright advert for Central Pier. Only applied in the summer of this year it was only around a month old when captured on camera at Tower on 5th September 2004 with the now long-gone overbridge in the background. The advert would remain in place until 2006.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=31642\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31642\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-31642\" title=\"1.680-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.680-gp1-550x382.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.680-gp1-550x382.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.680-gp1-1024x711.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.680-gp1.jpg 1137w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And so to 2019 and <strong>680<\/strong> has returned to the 1990s green and cream fleet livery including the black window surrounds. The tram is now preserved and owned by the Manchester Transport Museum Society who operate the Heaton Park Tramway but has spent a very limited time actually in Manchester with periods on loan at Beamish (where it operated in cream to signify the period it was a towing car) and now Blackpool where it is expected to remain for the foreseeable future. On 25th May 2019 <strong>680<\/strong> is seen at Beamish heading north to Little Bispham.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31643\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=31643\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31643\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31643\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31643\" title=\"2.680-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.680-gp1-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.680-gp1-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.680-gp1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.680-gp1.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackpool is again the location for our archive comparison series \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d today. This time we feature another tram which has since been preserved although for this tram it has returned to Blackpool on loan \u2013 it is Railcoach &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31641\">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":[77,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31641"}],"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=31641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31645,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31641\/revisions\/31645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}