{"id":11806,"date":"2015-07-12T17:02:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=11806"},"modified":"2015-07-12T17:02:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T16:02:11","slug":"picture-in-time-croydon-tramlink-2553","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=11806","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Croydon Tramlink 2553"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We head back to Croydon Tramlink for our latest Picture in Time image today. This time we go to last of the original CR4000 trams &#8211; <strong>2553<\/strong> &#8211; for a view at Arena at the very beginning of the lines operating life.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This view was taken on opening day 23rd May 2000 and shows Bombardier Flexity CR4000 tram <strong>2553<\/strong> stopping at Arena on a service to Beckenham Junction. Route 2 is the only one to survive today in its original form. Arena is on the former SER line from Addiscombe to Elmers End which was largely taken over by Tramlink having been closed in 1997. However, there was never a station at Arena, the line to Elmers End carries straight on but <strong>2553<\/strong> will turn sharply left\u00a0 on a new line through South Norwood Country Park to reach the Crystal Palace to Beckenham Junction railway line near Birkbeck.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11807\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=11807\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11807\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11807\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11807\" title=\"2553 Arena 23-5-00\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2553-Arena-23-5-00-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2553-Arena-23-5-00-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2553-Arena-23-5-00-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2553-Arena-23-5-00.jpg 1197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Ian Buck<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We head back to Croydon Tramlink for our latest Picture in Time image today. This time we go to last of the original CR4000 trams &#8211; 2553 &#8211; for a view at Arena at the very beginning of the lines &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=11806\">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":[16,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11806"}],"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=11806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11809,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11806\/revisions\/11809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}