{"id":35025,"date":"2020-08-03T18:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=35025"},"modified":"2020-08-03T16:22:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T15:22:59","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-centenary-641-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=35025","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Centenary 641"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d we are heading back to August 1984 for a view of a then new, <strong>Centenary 641<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Taken in August 1984 the below photo shows <strong>Centenary 641<\/strong> at Pleasure Beach, just passing the entrance to the loop as it heads northbound. Unfortunately, the policy of keeping the back blind blank at this time doesn\u2019t help us with ascertaining just where the tram may be heading except to say its going north! <strong>641<\/strong> had only entered the service the previous month having been the first of the Centenary Cars to be delivered from East Lancashire Coachbuilders on 17th April the same year. Featuring the roof advert box which was used to celebrate the forthcoming centenary of the tram, <strong>641<\/strong> is also in the original version of green and cream that the Centenary Cars would carry.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35026\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=35026\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35026\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35026\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35026\" title=\"641-kc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/641-kc-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/641-kc-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/641-kc-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/641-kc.jpg 1285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Keith Chadbourne<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d we are heading back to August 1984 for a view of a then new, Centenary 641.<\/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\/35025"}],"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=35025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35028,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35025\/revisions\/35028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}