{"id":20208,"date":"2018-01-05T20:56:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T20:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=20208"},"modified":"2018-01-05T20:56:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T20:56:23","slug":"where-are-they-now-bradford-tram-in-lancashire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=20208","title":{"rendered":"Where are they now? Bradford tram in Lancashire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As is well known when many of the UK\u2019s original tram systems closed they sold off their redundant trams for further use with many ending up as holiday homes and sheds. One of these is believed to be a 1902 Bradford tram which ended up at Sunderland Point in Lancashire \u2013 and it is still there today as a recent film by Lune Tube has shown.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It is thought that the tram was once a Bradford double decker \u2013 although there seems to be some debate about that with some suggesting it may be from Burnley \u2013 and was sold for use as a holiday home. It wasn\u2019t to remain as a holiday home at the caravan park in Middleton indefinitely though and when it became surplus to requirements again it was acquired by a neighbouring farmer and that is where it can be found today, looking a little worse for wear.<\/p>\n<p>Lune Tube \u2013 an online video channel for North Lancashire \u2013 have recently visited the tram, with permission from the farmer, and have published a video of the tram as it is today at <a href=\"http:\/\/lunetube.co.uk\/2018\/01\/04\/tram\/\">http:\/\/lunetube.co.uk\/2018\/01\/04\/tram\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As is well known when many of the UK\u2019s original tram systems closed they sold off their redundant trams for further use with many ending up as holiday homes and sheds. One of these is believed to be a 1902 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=20208\">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":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20208"}],"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=20208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20210,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20208\/revisions\/20210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}