{"id":49060,"date":"2023-04-14T18:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49060"},"modified":"2023-04-08T16:40:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T15:40:52","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-49-607-710","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49060","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool 49, 607 &#038; 710"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today \u201cPicture in Time\u201d continues its look at photos from the past at Crich and this time we have a line-up of three Blackpool trams in front of the depot.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Of those three trams at this time only one was a permanent member of the national collection and whilst one has returned and now is, the other was just a temporary visitor and is now back in Blackpool (although has a bit of a complicated ownership history that we won\u2019t be going into in this article!). The trio of trams in this photo from left to right are <strong>Standard 49<\/strong>, <strong>Boat 607<\/strong> and <strong>Balloon 710<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We featured <strong>607<\/strong> in last week\u2019s edition of this series and know that it was on loan from Blackpool in part exchange for centenary loanees between April and December 1985. The other visitor from Blackpool to Crich during this period was <strong>Balloon 710<\/strong> and it was to stay longer; arriving in April 1984 and leaving a few days after <strong>607<\/strong> in December 1985. It would turn out to be the last Balloon Car to run at Crich for the best part of 30 years. As for the Standard car, it had arrived at Crich in 1962 and entered service two years later. In 1985 it was still operational although seven years later in 1992 it would be withdrawn from service and hasn\u2019t run since.<\/p>\n<p>The three trams are seen in front of the depots in August 1985.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_49061\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=49061\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49061\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49061\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49061\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/49607710-kc-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/49607710-kc-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/49607710-kc-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/49607710-kc-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/49607710-kc.jpg 1285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Keith Chadbourne, August 1985<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today \u201cPicture in Time\u201d continues its look at photos from the past at Crich and this time we have a line-up of three Blackpool trams in front of the depot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49060"}],"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=49060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49062,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49060\/revisions\/49062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}