{"id":34372,"date":"2020-06-22T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=34372"},"modified":"2020-06-22T16:23:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T15:23:17","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-coronation-660","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=34372","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Coronation 660"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today its time to head to Blackpool again for a look into the archives with <strong>Coronation 660<\/strong> featuring this time around.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A skateboarder heads on by not seeming to notice (or maybe even care!) that they are just passing what was at the time of this photo the only operational Coronation Car in the Blackpool fleet! This is <strong>660<\/strong> close to the Tower in October 1997 with a small smattering of passengers on board as it heads south along the tramway. <strong>660<\/strong> \u2013 as <strong>324<\/strong> \u2013 was the 21st Coronation to enter service in August 1953 and would lose its VAMBAC equipment for conventional controllers in 1967. Retained as the sole Coronation Car when the rest of the class was withdrawn from service it would continue to fly the flag for this popular class up until the time <strong>304<\/strong> was restored to service. Both cars are out of service again and <strong>660<\/strong>\u2019s chance to shine again remain some way off with <strong>304<\/strong> the more likely example to return to action in the future.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34373\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=34373\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34373\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34373\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34373\" title=\"660-jj\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/660-jj-550x343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/660-jj-550x343.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/660-jj-1024x639.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/660-jj.jpg 1293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Jonathan Jarvis<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today its time to head to Blackpool again for a look into the archives with Coronation 660 featuring this time around.<\/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\/34372"}],"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=34372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34375,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34372\/revisions\/34375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}