{"id":17045,"date":"2017-04-04T18:18:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T17:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=17045"},"modified":"2017-04-04T18:18:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T17:18:38","slug":"picture-in-time-bournemouth-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=17045","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Bournemouth 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tram which was in the news last year for its transfer of ownership is the feature of today\u2019s Picture in Time \u2013 <strong>Bournemouth 85<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Built for Bournemouth Corporation Tramways in 1914 by UEC no. <strong>85<\/strong> was subsequently sold on to the Llandudno &amp; Colwyn Bay Electric Railway upon the closure of the south coast tramway in 1936. Renumbered <strong>6<\/strong> in Wales the tram continued to operate in its second home until 1955 when a second withdrawal came and the tram directly entered preservation. It originally went to the British Transport Museum in Clapham where it was displayed in its Llandudno guise. When the museum at Clapham closed the tram moved into the ownership of the Science Museum and it subsequently returned to the south coast where it was cosmetically restored back to its Bournemouth identity of <strong>85<\/strong>. Following a period in its home town <strong>85<\/strong> was moved to the Museum of Electricity where it was displayed in cramped conditions making photography difficult. The Museum of Electricty was closed at the end of 2012 and the future of the tram was up in the air until the second half of 2016 when it was announced ownership was being transferred from the Science Museum to the Tramway Museum Society. It will soon be transferred to Crich where it is planned to use it to display a 3\u20196\u201d gauge tramcar.<\/p>\n<p>Both of these photos show <strong>85<\/strong> at the Museum of Electricity on 30th June 2002 (showing how difficult photography was!) including the trams interior.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=17046\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17046\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17046\" title=\"1.85-bh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1.85-bh-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1.85-bh-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1.85-bh-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1.85-bh.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17047\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=17047\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17047\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17047\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17047\" title=\"2.85-bh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2.85-bh-550x361.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2.85-bh-550x361.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2.85-bh-1024x673.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2.85-bh.jpg 1241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17047\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Bob Hodges<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tram which was in the news last year for its transfer of ownership is the feature of today\u2019s Picture in Time \u2013 Bournemouth 85.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17045"}],"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=17045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17050,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17045\/revisions\/17050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}