{"id":47475,"date":"2022-12-09T15:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=47475"},"modified":"2022-12-08T18:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T18:34:25","slug":"15-years-apart-blackpool-railcoach-680-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=47475","title":{"rendered":"15 Years Apart: Blackpool Railcoach 680"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its another look a tram in 2007 and 2022 as \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d continues.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47476\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=47476\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47476\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47476\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47476\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1.680-gp-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1.680-gp-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1.680-gp-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1.680-gp-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1.680-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2007 saw Ex-Towing Railcoach 680 in the second year of carrying an advert for Joey Blower\u2019s show at the Merrie England Bar on North Pier. Featuring a plain blue base coat \u2013 including the ends being left untouched giving it a bit of an unfinished look \u2013 the advert had first been seen in 2006 but by 2008 had gone but with the base colour remaining and chevrons added to the ends to give a little bit of visibility. We see the tram at Manchester Square on 8th September 2007.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_47477\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=47477\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47477\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47477\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47477\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2.680-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2.680-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2.680-gp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2.680-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2.680-gp.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Now owned by the Manchester Transport Museum Society, 680 has been on loan back in Blackpool since 2015 having briefly operated at both Beamish and the Heaton Park Tramway having originally departed the coast in late 2013. In a brief outing during the Anniversary Weekend on 25th September 2022 we see the tram in the 1990s fleet livery as it approaches Cabin. (Both Photographs by Gareth Prior)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its another look a tram in 2007 and 2022 as \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47475"}],"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=47475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47478,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47475\/revisions\/47478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}