{"id":16233,"date":"2017-01-03T18:28:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T18:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=16233"},"modified":"2017-01-03T18:28:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T18:28:15","slug":"picture-in-time-leeds-602","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=16233","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Leeds 602"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Always a popular tram when featured in any form on this website today Picture in Time takes a look at <strong>Leeds 602<\/strong>, but this time we aren\u2019t looking at its preservation career as we catch up with it in Leeds whilst still in service.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This two black and white images were taken of <strong>602<\/strong> at some point between its entry into service in June 1953 and rapid withdrawal in 1957. The tram seems to awaiting departure with a service for Swinegate but not a lot more is known about the exact location of the tram or the exact date that the photo was taken.<\/p>\n<p>As we all know <strong>602<\/strong> was preserved as part of the national collection and arrived at Crich in 1960. It has, at times, been part of the operational fleet at the museum but is currently situated in the Great Exhibition Hall on static display.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=16234\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16234\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16234\" title=\"1.602-pg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1.602-pg-385x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1.602-pg-385x550.jpg 385w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1.602-pg-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1.602-pg.jpg 888w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16235\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=16235\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16235\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16235\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16235\" title=\"2.602-pg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2.602-pg-550x385.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2.602-pg-550x385.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2.602-pg-1024x717.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2.602-pg.jpg 1268w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Palle Gabriel<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always a popular tram when featured in any form on this website today Picture in Time takes a look at Leeds 602, but this time we aren\u2019t looking at its preservation career as we catch up with it in Leeds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=16233\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16233"}],"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=16233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16237,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16233\/revisions\/16237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}