{"id":11042,"date":"2015-04-29T18:59:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T18:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=11042"},"modified":"2015-04-29T18:59:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T18:59:11","slug":"picture-in-time-new-york-674","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=11042","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: New York 674"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is time for another international tram to feature in \u201cPicture in Time\u201d today \u2013 <strong>New York Third Avenue 674<\/strong>. As with many other trams which have been included in this series <strong>674<\/strong> is part of the national collection at Crich.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Built in 1939 <strong>674<\/strong> was constructed in the Third Avenue Transit Company\u2019s own workshops and is a \u201cZ\u201d class tram \u2013 designed for one man operation. In the end <strong>674<\/strong> did not operate for long on its native tramway and in the 1940s it was to be one of 42 trams from New York to be transported across the Atlantic as part of the American Marshall Plan in the aftermath of World War Two. Entering service in Vienna the tram was renumbered <strong>4225<\/strong> and ran there until 1969. Withdrawn from service the tram was accepted by Crich and arrived in Derbyshire in April 1970. Running as <strong>4225<\/strong> the tram was used between 1970 and 1975 and then from 1977. In 1979 it was returned to its New York identity and remained as part of the operating fleet until 1985 when it was withdrawn from service once again. In recent years it was one of the main exhibits in the PCC exhibition in the depots at Crich and although this display has now been removed <strong>674<\/strong> remains in situ.<\/p>\n<p>Our photo is taken at the Town End terminus and shows 674 in the company of <strong>Johannesburg 60<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11043\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=11043\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11043\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11043\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11043\" title=\"newyork674\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/newyork674-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/newyork674-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/newyork674-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/newyork674.jpg 1228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photograph by Bob Hodges)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is time for another international tram to feature in \u201cPicture in Time\u201d today \u2013 New York Third Avenue 674. As with many other trams which have been included in this series 674 is part of the national collection at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=11042\">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":[8,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11042"}],"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=11042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11046,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11042\/revisions\/11046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}