{"id":40948,"date":"2021-08-13T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40948"},"modified":"2021-08-07T13:03:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T12:03:04","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-166-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40948","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool 166"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today \u201cPicture in Time\u201d continues its look at trams in operation at Crich on August Bank Holiday Monday 1979.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We have now returned to Wakebridge and it looks as if even though its Bank Holiday \u2013 or maybe because it is! \u2013 the weather isn\u2019t exactly blazing hot sunshine with jackets the order of the day for crews and passengers! In this photo we see <strong>Blackpool Toastrack 166<\/strong> arriving at the stop \u2013 with fellow Blackpool car <strong>49<\/strong> following on behind and <strong>New York 674<\/strong> to the left \u2013 as it heads up the line.<\/p>\n<p><strong>166<\/strong> had arrived at Crich in 1972 after use \u00a0as a mobile television platform on its home system and would become the very first tram to receive a total rebuilt before entering service at the museum. This took around two years with <strong>166<\/strong> entering service at the 1974 Extravaganza. After that it has been in service more often or not but is currently waiting for attention in the Workshop before it can run again.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40949\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=40949\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40949\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40949\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40949\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/166-bh-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/166-bh-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/166-bh-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/166-bh-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/166-bh.jpg 1192w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Bob Hodges<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today \u201cPicture in Time\u201d continues its look at trams in operation at Crich on August Bank Holiday Monday 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40948"}],"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=40948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40950,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40948\/revisions\/40950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}