{"id":45926,"date":"2022-07-29T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45926"},"modified":"2022-07-28T19:31:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T18:31:18","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-omo-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45926","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool OMO 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We return to Blackpool in 1977 for our latest edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d for an image which t first glance looks like the world\u2019s first twin tram-bus!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We are again in Fleetwood for this image as we take a look at <strong>OMO 3<\/strong>. In the second fleet livery style to be carried by the tram, it is in the red and white colour scheme and includes a trolley. Also note the complete lack of any external advertising on the tram. Having set out from Fleetwood Ferry a few minutes earlier the tram will be going as far as it can all the way through to Starr Gate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3<\/strong> is being stalked by a Bristol RE operated by Ribble. At this time Ribble operated a network of local bus services around Fleetwood, all route numbers being prefixed with an \u201cF\u201d. On this occasion it seems that the bus has yet to attract many customers with it right up the back of the tram.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45927\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=45927\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45927\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45927\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45927\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/3-db-550x368.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/3-db-550x368.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/3-db-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/3-db-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/3-db.jpg 1276w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Donald Brooks<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We return to Blackpool in 1977 for our latest edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d for an image which t first glance looks like the world\u2019s first twin tram-bus!<\/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\/45926"}],"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=45926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45928,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45926\/revisions\/45928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}