{"id":46719,"date":"2022-10-14T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46719"},"modified":"2022-10-11T19:39:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T18:39:20","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-omo-5-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46719","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool OMO 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s \u201cPicture in Time\u201d again features the Blackpool Tramway in September 1984.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With its experimental single arm pantograph this photo shows <strong>OMO 5<\/strong> at Pleasure Beach on its way to Starr Gate \u2013 working on route 4 on this day. Converted to a OMO car in 1972 from <strong>English Electric Railcoach 609<\/strong> (<strong>221<\/strong>) by the time of this photo the tram had lost its original plum and custard livery which was replaced by the red and white colours during 1979.<\/p>\n<p>The Brecknell Willis single arm pantograph had been fitted in 1976 but would have little more than six months left on the tram with the standard diamond pantograph being fitted the following year \u2013 it was the last OMO to lose its single arm panto. <strong>5<\/strong> is now preserved and stored at the Tramway Museum Society\u2019s Clay Cross store.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46720\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=46720\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-46720\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46720\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/5-ps-550x356.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/5-ps-550x356.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/5-ps-1024x662.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/5-ps-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/5-ps.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Phil Steer, September 1984<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s \u201cPicture in Time\u201d again features the Blackpool Tramway in 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\/46719"}],"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=46719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46721,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46719\/revisions\/46721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}