{"id":61176,"date":"2025-12-04T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61176"},"modified":"2025-12-03T18:27:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:27:36","slug":"15-years-apart-blackpool-brush-630-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61176","title":{"rendered":"15 Years Apart: Blackpool Brush 630"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time for another edition of \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d and it\u2019s a Blackpool to Crich tram which features this time.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61177\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2a.630-gp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61177\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61177\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2a.630-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2a.630-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2a.630-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2a.630-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blackpool Brush Railcoach 630 may now call the Crich Tramway Village its home but back in 2010 it was still in service on its original home tramway at Blackpool as just another member of the standard operating fleet. As one of the three Brush Cars to have enjoyed a 1990s overhaul it was still used regularly and was in an all over advert for Karting 2000 (this is the second version of an advert for the attraction \u2013 which would be forced to move from Starr Gate to South Pier because of the construction of the new tram depot). This shot shows the tram standing on Pleasure Beach on 2nd October 2010.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_61178\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2b.630-gp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61178\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61178\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2b.630-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2b.630-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2b.630-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2b.630-gp.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">630 remined in Blackpool until 2011 and would then enter preservation at Crich, entering service at the home of the National Tramway Museum in 2012. Before it arrived it had received a repaint into the 1990s version of green and cream fleet livery and has been part of Crich\u2019s operating fleet ever since, although its since been confirmed that as from 2026 it will become a reserve tram. On a very wet 14th September 2025 we see the tram in splendid isolation at Wakebridge. (Both Photographs by Gareth Prior)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for another edition of \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d and it\u2019s a Blackpool to Crich tram which features this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61176"}],"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=61176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61179,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61176\/revisions\/61179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}