{"id":17670,"date":"2017-06-13T20:36:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T19:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=17670"},"modified":"2017-06-14T12:41:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T11:41:17","slug":"picture-in-time-volks-electric-railway-2-5-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=17670","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Volks Electric Railway 2, 5 &#038; 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of Picture in Time we head to the Sussex coast again although whereas last time we were there we were concentrating on the Modern Electric Tramway operation this time we are looking at the Volks Electric Railway.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In this view we see the rare sight of three of the cars at either terminus with <strong>2<\/strong>, <strong>5<\/strong> and <strong>7<\/strong> all captured on camera on 6th July 1998. This is the Black Rock\/Marina terminus which has been the site of the end of the line since the Volks Electric Railway was shortened by a few hundred yards in 1937. The terminus building was rebuilt in 1948 in an art deco style replacing the 1937 version which had suffered damage during the Second World War. The occasion of the three cars at the terminus was the reopening of the VER station here incorporating Southern Waters Black Rock Pumping Station with the grand opening being conducted by the Mayor of Brighton and Hove. The date of the photo is 6th July 1998.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=17671\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17671\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17671\" title=\"2,5+7-ts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/25+7-ts-550x329.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/25+7-ts-550x329.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/25+7-ts.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>And in this second image we see the official opening plaque.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17672\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=17672\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17672\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17672\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17672\" title=\"2.plaque-ts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2.plaque-ts-550x359.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2.plaque-ts-550x359.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2.plaque-ts.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Tony Sullivan<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of Picture in Time we head to the Sussex coast again although whereas last time we were there we were concentrating on the Modern Electric Tramway operation this time we are looking at the 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\/17670"}],"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=17670"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17676,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17670\/revisions\/17676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}