{"id":57405,"date":"2025-02-28T18:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=57405"},"modified":"2025-02-23T08:54:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T08:54:29","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-railcoach-678-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=57405","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Railcoach 678"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPicture in Time\u201d return to Blackpool for the next few weeks with another set of images. And we carry on with some more wintry images taken in January 1979 to start with from the camera of Donald Brooks.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We are in Fleetwood for this image and the snow isn\u2019t falling anymore but the roads are now slushy and wet. The pavements, though, have started to clear and pedestrian are re-emerging. It may not be the most imaginative of names but that doesn\u2019t stop The Cafeteria being popular, doubtless for hot drinks to warm up on a cold winters day.<\/p>\n<p>The photo features <strong>Ex-Towing Railcoach 678<\/strong> which makes its way across the traffic island to head north along Lord Street on its way to the Fleetwood Ferry terminus as a right-turning motor car waits for it to clear the carriageway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>678<\/strong> is in the plain half green, half cream livery and features Corporation crests as well as a trolley. The plain and simple FLEETWOOD destination blind is of the era as well. 678 was scrapped in June 2023 having been part of the Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust collection at Wyre Dock.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57406\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/678-db.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57406\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-57406\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/678-db-550x358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/678-db-550x358.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/678-db-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/678-db.jpg 1274w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Donald Brooks, 29th January 1979<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPicture in Time\u201d return to Blackpool for the next few weeks with another set of images. And we carry on with some more wintry images taken in January 1979 to start with from the camera of Donald Brooks.<\/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\/57405"}],"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=57405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57407,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57405\/revisions\/57407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}