{"id":61483,"date":"2026-01-09T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61483"},"modified":"2026-01-04T11:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:16:24","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-works-brush-259","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61483","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Works Brush 259"},"content":{"rendered":"

We start a new set of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d images today and we\u2019re back in Blackpool for the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

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The winter period is often associated with engineering works (particularly on the Blackpool Tramway which by its very nature is more seasonal than most other tramways in the UK) so it seems rather appropriate that we feature one of the dedicated engineering trams in this first photo of this latest series.<\/p>\n

Taken at Thornton Gate Permanent Way yard on 14th<\/sup> April 1994 we see Works Brush 259<\/strong> which was being used (with a trailer out of sight) in moving replacement rails along the tramway. 259<\/strong> \u2013 now owned by the Fylde Transport Trust \u2013 started off life as Brush Railcoach 287<\/strong> before being converted into a Works Car in 1971. It went through several numbers as a Works Car and would remain operational until 2002 when it was taken out of use and stored for the then LTT. It can currently be found stored in Rigby Road Depot.<\/p>\n

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Photograph by Phil Steer, 14th April 1994<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We start a new set of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d images today and we\u2019re back in Blackpool for the next few weeks.<\/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\/61483"}],"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=61483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61485,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61483\/revisions\/61485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}