{"id":33501,"date":"2020-04-27T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33501"},"modified":"2020-04-27T16:15:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T15:15:05","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-boats-605-600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33501","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Boats 605 &#038; 600"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What better sight is there than a pair of Blackpool Boats on the Prom? Well, that\u2019s exactly what we take a look at today for this edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d as we again head back to 1975.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Again, taken on 6th July 1975, we are at the Tower on what would appear to be a warm and sunny early summer\u2019s day. At the front of this shot we see <strong>Boat 605<\/strong>, empty having just terminated with a service whilst it is followed by prototype Boat Car \u2013 Luxury Toastrack officially of course \u2013 no. <strong>600<\/strong> which has a full load of passengers with it looking as if it is heading through to Pleasure Beach. Both trams are in the standard and basic green and cream livery carried by the Boats during this period.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, both of these remain extant today but are split by quite some distance as although <strong>600<\/strong> is one of the prides of the Blackpool heritage fleet, <strong>605<\/strong> \u2013 renumbered back to 233 \u2013 is thousands of miles away in San Francisco. <strong>600<\/strong> entered service in May 1934 with <strong>605<\/strong> following in the August of the following year, they started off numbered 225 and 233. Since this photo was taken <strong>600<\/strong> spent a period on loan at the Heaton Park Tramway whilst <strong>605<\/strong> operated at Beamish when under the ownership of the Lancastrian (now Fylde) Transport Trust before heading off for a new life in the USA.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33502\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=33502\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33502\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33502\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33502\" title=\"605+600-db\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/605+600-db-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/605+600-db-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/605+600-db-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/605+600-db.jpg 1283w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Donald Brooks<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What better sight is there than a pair of Blackpool Boats on the Prom? Well, that\u2019s exactly what we take a look at today for this edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d as we again head back to 1975.<\/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\/33501"}],"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=33501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33505,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33501\/revisions\/33505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}