{"id":35648,"date":"2020-09-21T18:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=35648"},"modified":"2020-09-21T16:54:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T15:54:05","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-twin-car-672682-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=35648","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Twin Car 672+682"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we take another look at a Metro Coastlines livery style carried on a Blackpool Tram in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The below photo shows <strong>Twin Car 672+682<\/strong> at Tower proudly showing off its Metro Coastlines Orange and Yellow livery, which was carried by the Line 1 Promenade buses. Five of the Twin Cars were to receive a repaint into Metro Coastlines livery in the early years of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century after they underwent overhauls to enable them to be used on the Fleetwood service after the condition of the track to the northern terminus was deemed to be unsuitable for double-deckers to continue running. <strong>672+682<\/strong> entered service for the first time in these Metro Coastlines colours in time for the 2003 season and would retain these colours for the remainder of the traditional Blackpool Tramway, with it operating on that last weekend in November 2011.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35649\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=35649\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35649\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35649\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35649\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/672682-anon-550x318.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/672682-anon-550x318.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/672682-anon-1024x592.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/672682-anon-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/672682-anon.jpg 1147w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Anonymous<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we take another look at a Metro Coastlines livery style carried on a Blackpool Tram in the early 2000s.<\/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\/35648"}],"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=35648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35650,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35648\/revisions\/35650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}