{"id":15287,"date":"2016-08-30T21:01:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T20:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=15287"},"modified":"2016-08-30T21:01:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T20:01:27","slug":"in-pictures-t69-16%e2%80%99s-name-lives-on%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=15287","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: T69 16\u2019s name lives on\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The one remaining T69 at Wednesbury Depot is the last to have run in service \u2013 <strong>16<\/strong>. <strong>16<\/strong> was named Gerwyn John in November 2005 but as with all withdrawn T69s it soon had its nameplates removed but it has never been worked out just where the plates went. Well one of the plates from <strong>16<\/strong> has now resurfaced \u2013 being used as part of a headboard at the Severn Valley Railway!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->On a recent visit to the Severn Valley Railway our usual Midland Metro contributor Andy Walters was surprised to discover a special headboard carried Western diesel locomotive D1062 Western Courier. It read:<\/p>\n<p>The Last \u2013 T69 \u2013 Tram 16<\/p>\n<p>1951 Gerwyn John 2004<\/p>\n<p>WLA Working Member<\/p>\n<p>It also includes a head on shot of <strong>16<\/strong> and the name Gerwyn John is actually one of the original nameplates removed from <strong>16<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you see mentions of trams in the strangest places!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15288\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=15288\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15288\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15288\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15288\" title=\"1.diesel-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1.diesel-aw-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">D1062 at Kidderminster with headboard in place.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_15289\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=15289\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15289\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15289\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15289\" title=\"2.headboard-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2.headboard-aw-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A close-up of the headboard clearly showing the picture of a T69 and the original nameplate taken from 16. (Both Photographs by Andy Walters)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one remaining T69 at Wednesbury Depot is the last to have run in service \u2013 16. 16 was named Gerwyn John in November 2005 but as with all withdrawn T69s it soon had its nameplates removed but it has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=15287\">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":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287"}],"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=15287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15291,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287\/revisions\/15291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}