{"id":38590,"date":"2021-03-08T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=38590"},"modified":"2021-03-06T13:42:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T13:42:26","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-omo-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=38590","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool OMO 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this latest instalment of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d we are again in Blackpool with the last of the OMO cars featuring in this image.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>OMO 13<\/strong> would only have an operating career of eight years, entering service just a few months before this early September 1976 view and then being withdrawn from service in June 1984. Scrapping then came in March 1985 in Rigby Road Depot. It had been rebuilt from <strong>English Electric Railcoach 618<\/strong> which had run up until the end of October 1975.<\/p>\n<p>In this photo we see <strong>13<\/strong> outside Lewis\u2019s department store (opened 1964) as passengers wait to board at the front entrance with it seeming that the driver is indeed collecting fares upon boarding. The tram looks quite full so whether all those in the queue will get on board remains to be seen. Note that <strong>13<\/strong> is carrying a single arm pantograph which it would carry between June 1976 and April 1977. As for Lewis\u2019s, it would close in 1993 and although the building still stands today it is unrecognisable having been reduced in height and reclad with the section on the corner of Victoria Street now a Poundland.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38591\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=38591\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38591\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38591\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38591\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/13-db-550x361.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/13-db-550x361.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/13-db-1024x672.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/13-db-768x504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/13-db.jpg 1261w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Donald Brooks<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this latest instalment of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d we are again in Blackpool with the last of the OMO cars featuring in this image.<\/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\/38590"}],"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=38590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38592,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38590\/revisions\/38592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}