{"id":4602,"date":"2013-07-22T14:30:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T13:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=4602"},"modified":"2013-07-22T14:30:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T13:30:24","slug":"more-changes-for-blackpool-brush-car-631","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=4602","title":{"rendered":"More changes for Blackpool Brush car 631"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blackpool Transport chose the annual Fleetwood Festival of Transport on Sunday 21st July to unveil the latest changes to <strong>Brush Railcoach 631<\/strong>. This tram first debuted in May following a repaint in green and cream, but to ensure that the car was ready for its advertised launch date some jobs were not completed at this time. Since then, <strong>631<\/strong> has returned to the works and now looks much better following further attention to emphasise its new status as a heritage tram.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most obvious alteration to <strong>631<\/strong> is the restoration of its old drop-tray lifeguards, which had previously been replaced by modern plough lifeguards when it was refurbished in the mid-1990s. However, some finishing touches have also been made to its paintwork with the solid block of green on the top half of the body sides now broken up by the addition of a thick cream band above the saloon glazing. In addition, the green paint which surrounds the windows has been extended to sweep down along the sides of the driver&#8217;s cabs, which suits the streamlined profile of a Brush car extremely well. In this new guise, <strong>631<\/strong> now resembles its late 1950s appearance, recreating a livery not seen on a car of this type for several decades and contrasting with the various other green and cream liveries worn by its preserved sisters.<\/p>\n<p>As with the repaint of <strong>Centenary car 648<\/strong>, considerable effort has been made to create a really special tram and the end result looks truly stunning. However, this is only the first phase of work on <strong>631<\/strong> and it is intended to replace the enclosed pantograph tower with something more tasteful in the future, although this will be quite a big job as it contains much of the car&#8217;s electrical equipment, which will presumably need to be re-housed elsewhere. It is not known when this work will be carried out although with numerous other projects in the pipeline, it would be understandable if <strong>631<\/strong> takes a back seat to allow other historic trams which are not currently able to run to receive workshop attention.<\/p>\n<p>It is hoped to provide photos of<strong> 631<\/strong> and <strong>648<\/strong> showing off their new looks shortly on British Trams Online, so keep checking our news page for more updates!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackpool Transport chose the annual Fleetwood Festival of Transport on Sunday 21st July to unveil the latest changes to Brush Railcoach 631. This tram first debuted in May following a repaint in green and cream, but to ensure that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=4602\">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":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602"}],"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=4602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4603,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602\/revisions\/4603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}