{"id":16301,"date":"2017-01-10T20:05:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T20:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=16301"},"modified":"2017-01-10T20:05:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T20:05:02","slug":"picture-in-time-volks-electric-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=16301","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Volks Electric Railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A line we rarely feature on these pages is the subject of Picture in Time today as we head to the south coast and Brighton\u2019s Volks Electric Railway.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Volks Electric Railway is the world\u2019s oldest operating electric railway having first started operation in 1883 at which time it was built to a 2ft gauge and running for just \u00bc mile between Swimming Arch and Chain Pier. An extension and regauging to todays 2ft 8 \u00bd\u201d followed in 1884 before a further extension in the early 1900s to Black Rock. Since 1930 there have been a number of shortenings of the line until it reached its current 1.02 mile length in 1990 running between Aquarium and Black Rock with one intermediate station at Halfway. The line was recently awarded a \u00a31.6 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund which will see the provision of a new visitor centre and ticket office at Aquarium, a new depot including viewing gallery at Halfway and the restoration of cars 4, 6 and 10 to operation. This work has recently commenced.<\/p>\n<p>In this 1985 view we are at the depot where three unidentified cars can be seen awaiting their next duties.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16302\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=16302\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16302\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16302\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16302\" title=\"ver-np\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ver-np-550x379.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ver-np-550x379.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ver-np-1024x705.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ver-np.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Nigel Pennick<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A line we rarely feature on these pages is the subject of Picture in Time today as we head to the south coast and Brighton\u2019s Volks Electric Railway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16301"}],"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=16301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16304,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16301\/revisions\/16304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}