{"id":12505,"date":"2015-09-14T19:53:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T18:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=12505"},"modified":"2015-09-14T20:03:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T19:03:25","slug":"wallasey-78-celebrates-our-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=12505","title":{"rendered":"Wallasey 78 celebrates our Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Birkenhead heritage tramway&#8217;s <strong>Wallasey 78 <\/strong>has recently received new period style between-deck signwriting, &#8216;Loyal greetings to Her Majesty&#8217;. This is in recognition of Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s recent remarkable achievement, in becoming the longest-reigning monarch in the history of Great Britain. Its first day in service so adorned was Sunday 12th September.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time that <strong>Wallasey 78 <\/strong>has paid tribute to the royal family; it previously carried temporary slogans commemorating the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. The new lettering has been applied over the cream between-deck side panels and have been painted in a sympathetic fashion which blend in well with the car&#8217;s distinctive sea green and cream livery.<\/p>\n<p>It is perhaps surprising that such a slogan has adorned one of the Birkenhead fleet rather than wording to celebrate the tramway&#8217;s 20th anniversary this year, but the new boards nonetheless provide some additional interest and have given this unique tram a slightly different appearance at minimal effort.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12507\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=12507\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12507\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12507\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12507\" title=\"78 royal slogans\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/78-royal-slogans.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/78-royal-slogans.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/78-royal-slogans-550x412.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wallasey 78 at the front of Taylor Street depot just after its new royal slogans had been added on 12th September. (Photo by Andrew Hunt)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Birkenhead heritage tramway&#8217;s Wallasey 78 has recently received new period style between-deck signwriting, &#8216;Loyal greetings to Her Majesty&#8217;. This is in recognition of Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s recent remarkable achievement, in becoming the longest-reigning monarch in the history of Great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=12505\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12505"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12505"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12510,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12505\/revisions\/12510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}