{"id":3952,"date":"2013-06-01T12:44:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T11:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=3952"},"modified":"2013-06-01T12:44:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T11:44:20","slug":"brush-car-622-gets-a-rub-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=3952","title":{"rendered":"Brush car 622 gets a rub down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a period of silence, work has now commenced on preparing <strong>Blackpool Brush car 622<\/strong> for its new role as a static classroom at Anchorsholme Primary School. The project was first announced several months ago and was expected to result in <strong>622<\/strong> moving to the school at Easter, but some confusion regarding costs of the sale and issues with paperwork have slowed progress.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It may be recalled that <strong>622<\/strong> was originally sold so that its recently refurbished trucks could be re-used under sister car <strong>632<\/strong> when this tram was preserved by the Lancastrian Transport Trust. The tram, now owned by Classic Bus North West, has been stored at the LTT&#8217;s Brinwell Road depot since September 2010, but has never been classed as a preserved tram and has surrendered various parts to other vehicles. When the school arrangement was first announced, some work was carried out to repair <strong>622<\/strong>&#8216;s ceiling, as some of the beading used to hold the ceiling panels in place had previously been removed for re-use in <strong>OMO 8<\/strong>. Now, after work had stalled for a few months, the car is being rubbed down ready for repainting, and the last traces of its former Pontins all-over advert have been removed, leaving behind a tatty undercoat of white, blue and yellow. This should soon disapear when the tram receives an amended version of its famous &#8216;Tigerrific&#8217; advert for Blackpool Zoo, although this is expected to feature other animals as well as tigers to increase its appeal to schoolchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully <strong>622<\/strong>&#8216;s impending departure will allow for a shunt around of the vehicles stored at Brinwell Road. It would be excellent if the space vacated by <strong>622<\/strong> could be filled by one of the many LTT-owned trams currently in outside storage, with the unique VAMBAC-equipped <strong>Coronation 304<\/strong> an obvious candidate to move undercover. Whilst <strong>622<\/strong>&#8216;s ultimate fate may not meet with universal approval, hopefully its transfer to a new home may help at least one other tram to enjoy a more secure future which would hopefully be much appreciated by the enthusiast community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a period of silence, work has now commenced on preparing Blackpool Brush car 622 for its new role as a static classroom at Anchorsholme Primary School. The project was first announced several months ago and was expected to result &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=3952\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3953,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions\/3953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}