{"id":10528,"date":"2015-03-10T18:37:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T18:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10528"},"modified":"2015-03-10T18:37:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T18:37:46","slug":"picture-in-time-stib-brussels-9062","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10528","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: STIB Brussels 9062"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although this series will primarily be featuring UK trams we will also from time to time be featuring trams from across the world which have been in the UK and today\u2019s images show <strong>STIB Brussels 9062<\/strong> which ran from the late 1980s at Summerlee Industrial Museum in Scotland but has since been scrapped following vandalism.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>9062<\/strong> was one of a class of 100 trams built in 1959-1961 by the STIB workshops using trucks and electrical equipment from old 4 wheelers dating from 1929-1931. They had the appearance of the PCC cars which were also entering service in Brussels at the same time. Having been withdrawn from service in Belgium the tram was acquired for the fledgling operating tramway at the Summerlee Industrial Museum and became the first tram to arrive on site in 1988. It operated over a 200 metre length of track, initially with only a shunting controller at the rear but subsequently full controllers were fitted. As the years past <strong>9062<\/strong> started to see less use with Scottish trams being restored and entering service and then in September 2004 a devastating attack by vandals proved to be the end for <strong>9062<\/strong>. The damage was considered uneconomical to repair and <strong>9062<\/strong> was scrapped although the truck was retained and has since been sent to a museum in England.<\/p>\n<p>Our two photos today show <strong>9062<\/strong> at Summerlee on 13th August 1988, not long after the line had opened.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=10529\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10529\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10529\" title=\"9062-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/9062-1-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/9062-1-550x309.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/9062-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/9062-1.jpg 1266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10530\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=10530\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10530\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10530\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10530\" title=\"9062-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/9062-2-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/9062-2-550x309.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/9062-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/9062-2.jpg 1262w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Both Photos by Bob Hodges)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although this series will primarily be featuring UK trams we will also from time to time be featuring trams from across the world which have been in the UK and today\u2019s images show STIB Brussels 9062 which ran from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10528\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10528"}],"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=10528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10532,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10528\/revisions\/10532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}