{"id":46593,"date":"2022-10-07T18:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46593"},"modified":"2022-10-11T19:18:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T18:18:16","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-omo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46593","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool OMO 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the next few weeks \u201cPicture in Time\u201d is back in Blackpool as we feature photos taken during September 1984.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We start off with this picture of an OMO Car \u2013 which we can\u2019t identify as where the fleet number would usually be held seems to be blank in this image! What we can identify is that the tram is running on route 8 with a southbound working to Starr Gate. Its just approaching South Pier with the Lucky Star amusement arcade in the background. It retains its Corporation crests on the bodyside, is operating with a trolley pole and has two roof advert boxes \u2013 the closer of which is advertising Blackpool\u2019s top two discos.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Alan Spencer for identfying the tram as <strong>OMO 2<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46594\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=46594\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-46594\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46594\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46594\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/omo-ps-550x371.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/omo-ps-550x371.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/omo-ps-1024x690.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/omo-ps-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/omo-ps.jpg 1287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Phil Steer, September 1984<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the next few weeks \u201cPicture in Time\u201d is back in Blackpool as we feature photos taken during September 1984.<\/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\/46593"}],"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=46593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46718,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46593\/revisions\/46718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}