{"id":32944,"date":"2020-03-12T18:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=32944"},"modified":"2020-03-12T17:54:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T17:54:08","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-omo-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=32944","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool OMO 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As last week we are featuring a Blackpool tram during 1984 in this edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d. This time it is one of the OMO cars.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This photo is taken as <strong>OMO 4<\/strong> rounds the Metropole Hotel on 8th July 1984 with a service which will go all the way to Starr Gate. Although not clear in this image the tram is in the Red and White livery at this time and as well as the \u201cPay as you Enter\u201d signs and Corporation crests has two roof advert boards either side of the trolley tower. It must be a fairly warm summer\u2019s day in Blackpool as the majority of the saloon windows are open.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4<\/strong> has started out life as <strong>English Electric Railcoach 220<\/strong> (renumbered <strong>608<\/strong>) and entered service in October 1972. It had less than a year left in service when this photo was taken as it would be withdrawn in March 1985 before succumbing the cutters torch in the first month of 1987.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32945\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=32945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32945\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32945\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32945\" title=\"4-ps\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/4-ps-550x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/4-ps-550x352.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/4-ps-1024x657.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/4-ps.jpg 1298w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Phil Steer<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As last week we are featuring a Blackpool tram during 1984 in this edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d. This time it is one of the OMO cars.<\/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\/32944"}],"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=32944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32947,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32944\/revisions\/32947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}