{"id":17427,"date":"2017-05-20T17:40:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T16:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=17427"},"modified":"2017-05-20T17:40:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T16:40:27","slug":"picture-in-time-stagecoach-supertram-in-the-snow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=17427","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Stagecoach Supertram in the snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We head back to winter in today\u2019s edition of Picture in Time with a couple more images taken following heavy snow back at the start of December 2010.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We have previously featured images in this series from this same day and this time we include two more shots taken at both Hillsborough Corner and Castle Square in the city centre. Heavy snow had fallen overnight and was continuing to fall as these images were captured but despite that trams were \u2013 in the main \u2013 continuing to operate with the main obstacle being over road vehicles getting in the way of the trams!<\/p>\n<p>In this first image we are at Hillsborough Corner where we see <strong>121<\/strong> making its way along the tracks with a Blue route service to Halfway. The snow is continuing to fall in this shot and there are just a few hardy pedestrians who are continuing to go about their daily business \u2013 don\u2019t they know its easier to travel by tram!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=17428\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17428\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17428\" title=\"1.121-sc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1.121-sc-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1.121-sc-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1.121-sc-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1.121-sc.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Then later on the same day we are at Castle Square where we see <strong>102<\/strong> arriving at the stop also working on the Blue route to Halfway. The snow now seems to have stopped falling but that which has fallen has piled up alongside the track and it also seems that it has formed a barrier for passengers to have level boarding onto the tram as it is found at the very edge of the platform.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17429\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=17429\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17429\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17429\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17429\" title=\"2.102-sc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2.102-sc-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2.102-sc-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2.102-sc-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2.102-sc.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Stuart Cooke<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We head back to winter in today\u2019s edition of Picture in Time with a couple more images taken following heavy snow back at the start of December 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17427"}],"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=17427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17431,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17427\/revisions\/17431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}