{"id":43109,"date":"2021-12-27T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43109"},"modified":"2021-12-22T18:09:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T18:09:48","slug":"15-years-apart-blackpool-toastrack-166","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43109","title":{"rendered":"15 Years Apart: Blackpool Toastrack 166"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re back with another instalment of \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d today as we take another look at a tram in the national collection at the Crich Tramway Village.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The feature of this article is <strong>Blackpool Toastrack 166<\/strong> which is first seen on 11<sup>th<\/sup> June 2006 when in service at that year\u2019s Tramathon event. It look a rare sunny and warm day as passengers disembark from the tram outside The Red Lion having completed their journey on the line.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43110\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43110\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-43110\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.166-gp-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.166-gp-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.166-gp-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.166-gp-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.166-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whilst <strong>166<\/strong> didn\u2019t run in passenger service during 2021 \u2013 and hasn\u2019t done so since 2019 \u2013 the tram was being prepared for action towards the end of the season after workshop attention and was out on test during Tram Day on 18<sup>th<\/sup> September 2021 when captured in this image at the Entrance. The most noticeable change over the past 15 years is the change of column for the large destination boards \u2013 from black to red writing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43111\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43111\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43111\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43111\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43111\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.166-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.166-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.166-gp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.166-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.166-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re back with another instalment of \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d today as we take another look at a tram in the national collection at the Crich Tramway Village.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43109"}],"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=43109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43112,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43109\/revisions\/43112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}