{"id":33933,"date":"2020-05-29T20:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T19:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33933"},"modified":"2020-05-29T16:51:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T15:51:03","slug":"so-nearly-not-quite-blackpool-centenary-643","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33933","title":{"rendered":"So Nearly, Not Quite: Blackpool Centenary 643"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this series of photos that didn\u2019t go according to what had been planned when the decision was taken to press the shutter, this latest \u201cdark\u201d image possibly takes the prize of why did I bother! An incredibly dark livery and dark conditions combined with poor photography skills led to this \u201cimage\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Trust us but this photo shows <strong>Centenary 643<\/strong> at Bispham on 4th September 2006. Obviously, it is after the sun has set and the illuminations are on but despite that extra light it hasn\u2019t helped this photo! <strong>643<\/strong> was in a mainly purple advert for Grosvenor Bingo which can just be made out in this image with the tram standing at the southbound stop as it prepares to head to Pleasure Beach. At least we can see the headlights! Aah, never mind, better luck next time!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33934\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=33934\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33934\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33934\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33934\" title=\"643-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/643-gp-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/643-gp-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/643-gp-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/643-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this series of photos that didn\u2019t go according to what had been planned when the decision was taken to press the shutter, this latest \u201cdark\u201d image possibly takes the prize of why did I bother! An incredibly dark livery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33933\">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":[7,83],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33933"}],"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=33933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33936,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33933\/revisions\/33936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}