{"id":56764,"date":"2025-01-01T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56764"},"modified":"2024-12-22T20:04:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T20:04:31","slug":"15-years-apart-blackpool-brush-631-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56764","title":{"rendered":"15 Years Apart: Blackpool Brush 631"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its time for the last edition of \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d covering the years 2009 and 2024 and once more we\u2019re off to Blackpool to take a look at a couple of images.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56765\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16a.631-gp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56765\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56765\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16a.631-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16a.631-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16a.631-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16a.631-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red sky at night, shepherd\u2019s delight? If the shepherd like a refurbished Brush Car in a full advertising livery for Wall\u2019s Ice Cream it is. This advert became a familiar sight on the Blackpool Tramway and even after its vinyls were removed and it was left with a plain red base coat it was still seen in the early years of heritage operation. This image was taken on 11th September 2009 and shows the tram on Pleasure Beach loop.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_56766\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16b.631-gp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56766\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56766\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16b.631-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16b.631-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16b.631-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16b.631-gp.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">631 turned out to be the sole enclosed heritage single decker to run in Blackpool during 2024 (ignoring the illuminated feature cars of course) and we see it in this image as it approaches North Pier when working a heritage tour to Fleetwood on 26th May 2024. Its in a version of a green and cream fleet livery with additional bits to celebrate Reginald Dixon. (Both Photographs by Gareth Prior)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its time for the last edition of \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d covering the years 2009 and 2024 and once more we\u2019re off to Blackpool to take a look at a couple of images.<\/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\/56764"}],"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=56764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56767,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56764\/revisions\/56767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}