{"id":13429,"date":"2015-12-16T20:18:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T19:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=13429"},"modified":"2016-01-01T21:40:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T20:40:39","slug":"picture-in-time-seaton-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=13429","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Seaton 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are in Sussex for the latest edition of Picture in Time as we take a look at the Modern Electric Tramways operation in Eastbourne ahead of its move along the south coast to Seaton. The tram in focus is no. <strong>8<\/strong> as it was in 1968.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->No. <strong>8<\/strong> was actually newly built in 1968 and is seen here in its original condition which included lower deck saloons and a coat of green and white paint. It was built to the Eastbourne gauge of 2 foot but looking forward to the Seaton move just two years later (which had already been decided on) it was slightly larger than similar trams <strong>6<\/strong> and <strong>7<\/strong>. Upon movement to Seaton it was regauged to 2\u20199\u201d and had the honour of being the first paying passenger carrying tram in Devon when it ran using a battery trailer. Fast forward to 1992 and a spell in the workshops saw no. <strong>8<\/strong> rebuilt with the lower deck now featuring crossbench seating, which is the condition it remains in today. It has also been a colourful tram with it being the first pink tram in Seaton and then in 2012 it received a nice coat of Bristol blue and cream paint.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13430\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=13430\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13430\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13430\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13430\" title=\"8-jh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/8-jh-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/8-jh-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/8-jh-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/8-jh.jpg 1231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by John Hampton<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are in Sussex for the latest edition of Picture in Time as we take a look at the Modern Electric Tramways operation in Eastbourne ahead of its move along the south coast to Seaton. The tram in focus is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=13429\">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":[35,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429"}],"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=13429"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13573,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429\/revisions\/13573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}