{"id":53809,"date":"2024-05-24T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53809"},"modified":"2024-05-19T09:02:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T08:02:01","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-electric-locomotive-crane-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53809","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Electric Locomotive &#038; Crane 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its time for another change of location for \u201cPicture in Time\u201d with the next set of photos coming from Crich.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It may be a different tramway which is featured in the series but the tram (or locomotive as it is here) that is the main focus of this image originally comes from the same place as our last location \u2013 Blackpool. Taken in 1974 this photo is taken by the quarry (when it was still actively being used) at Crich with the <strong>Blackpool Electric Locomotive<\/strong> in charge of an works outing.<\/p>\n<p>At this time the Locomotive was in the red livery with \u201cBLACKPOOL CORPORATION TRAMWAYS ENGINEERING DEPT.\u201d lettering as opposed to the green paintwork we are more used to seeing on it today and have been for some time. Its accompanied here by a small wagon and <strong>Crane no. 4<\/strong> as its being used on engineering duties.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53810\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=53810\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53810\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53810\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53810\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/loco-ts-550x430.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/loco-ts-550x430.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/loco-ts-1024x800.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/loco-ts-768x600.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/loco-ts.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Tony Stevenson, c1974<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its time for another change of location for \u201cPicture in Time\u201d with the next set of photos coming from Crich.<\/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\/53809"}],"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=53809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53811,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53809\/revisions\/53811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}