{"id":44449,"date":"2022-04-02T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=44449"},"modified":"2022-04-01T18:53:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T17:53:17","slug":"out-and-about-down-at-rigby-road-depot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=44449","title":{"rendered":"Out and About: Down at Rigby Road Depot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOut and About\u201d is today taking a look at Blackpool\u2019s Rigby Road Depot where we see a little bit of shunting involving the Engineering Car and one of the ever popular Boat Cars.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_44450\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=44450\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44450\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44450\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1.600-ta-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1.600-ta-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1.600-ta-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1.600-ta-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1.600-ta.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-44450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With it being trollied through the complex wiring at the entrance to the depot we see Boat Car 600 being shunted at the depot. Its just come through the depot gates and will pull forward a bit further before returning into the depot complex once more.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_44452\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=44452\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44452\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44452\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44452\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2.754-ta-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2.754-ta-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2.754-ta-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2.754-ta-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2.754-ta.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-44452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Also outside the depot we see Engineering Car 754. Showing evidence of recent bodywork attention with new panels at the bottom and marks alongside the length of the body this tram remains an important member of Blackpool Transport\u2019s works fleet, remaining based at Rigby Road. (Both Photographs by Tony Armitage, 10th February 2022)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOut and About\u201d is today taking a look at Blackpool\u2019s Rigby Road Depot where we see a little bit of shunting involving the Engineering Car and one of the ever popular Boat Cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44449"}],"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=44449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44453,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44449\/revisions\/44453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}