{"id":32234,"date":"2020-01-23T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=32234"},"modified":"2020-01-23T17:31:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T17:31:47","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-railcoach-678","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=32234","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Railcoach 678"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We move into the 1990s for this week\u2019s Blackpool archive image as we take a look a look at one of three ex-Towing cars which was never permanently coupled to its trailer.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In the below image we view <strong>Railcoach 678<\/strong> as it approaches Manchester Square heading for Pleasure Beach. The pronounced droop on the tram which was a feature of <strong>678<\/strong> towards the end of its operating career it already visible in this 1993 photo and the tram is the relatively plain fleet livery of the time with green only featuring at the top and bottom of the tram. Also in this photo we see two unidentified Balloon Cars heading north. This scene was captured in the June of 1993.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Railcoach 278<\/strong> \u2013 as originally numbered \u2013 was converted into a Towing Car Motor in 1961 and entered service as such in the August of that year. Its trailer car was never permanently coupled (as was the case for <strong>279<\/strong> and <strong>280<\/strong> as well) and by 1972 the trailer had been withdrawn from service and <strong>678<\/strong> \u2013 as it had been renumbered in 1968 \u2013 had to go it alone from that point on. Remaining operational until 2006 the tram was then stored before it eventually joined the Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust and it is now stored at Wyre Dock with the remainder of their trams.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32235\" style=\"width: 384px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=32235\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32235\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32235\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32235\" title=\"678-jj\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/679-jj-374x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/679-jj-374x550.jpg 374w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/679-jj-696x1024.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/679-jj.jpg 870w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Jonathan Jarvis<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We move into the 1990s for this week\u2019s Blackpool archive image as we take a look a look at one of three ex-Towing cars which was never permanently coupled to its trailer.<\/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\/32234"}],"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=32234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32238,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32234\/revisions\/32238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}