{"id":61417,"date":"2025-12-08T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61417"},"modified":"2025-12-24T09:48:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:48:49","slug":"numbers-8-blackpool-omo-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61417","title":{"rendered":"Numbers 8 \u2013 Blackpool OMO 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNumbers\u201d reaching 8.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61418\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/8-gp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61418\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61418\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/8-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/8-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/8-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/8-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And its Blackpool that is featured in this latest image as we take a look at a tram which is owned by the Fylde Transport Trust \u2013 OMO 8. One of 13 trams which were rebuilt from English Electric Railcoaches in the 1970s, 8 was once Railcoach 612 (265) and entered service as an OMO in June 1974. It would remain in service until May 1992 and then in 2005 would be preserved by the (then) Lancastrian Transport Trust. It was hoped that it would be restored to operational condition in time for the 2010 125th anniversary celebrations but that wasn\u2019t quite possible \u2013 although it was able to move under its own power to take a part in the Cavalcade albeit minus passengers. It would run some tours later in the year though, although hasn\u2019t been used since. It remains stored at Rigby Road Depot. We see the plum and custard liveried tram on anniversary day 29th September 2010. (Photograph by Gareth Prior, 29th September 2010)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNumbers\u201d reaching 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,118],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61417"}],"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=61417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61419,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61417\/revisions\/61419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}