{"id":20829,"date":"2018-03-06T15:54:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T15:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=20829"},"modified":"2018-03-06T15:54:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T15:54:37","slug":"around-the-world-in-trams-oranjestad-streetcar-aruba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=20829","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in Trams: Oranjestad Streetcar, Aruba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An usual tramway is featured in this series today as we head to the only tramway in the Caribbean on the Dutch island of Aruba which features hydrogen cell technology.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Known as the Oranjestad Streetcar the line only opened on 22nd December 2012 as part of a larger project to upgrade the main retail areas of the town which is the capital of the island. The line can now call upon four cars \u2013 two single deckers and two double deckers \u2013 with all being built by TIG\/m in California. They are powered by batteries augmented by hydrogen fuel cells.<\/p>\n<p>This photo shows one of the double deckers \u2013 without any external identification of a fleet number \u2013 running along the line in November 2017.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20830\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=20830\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20830\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20830\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20830\" title=\"aruba-sj\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/aruba-sj-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/aruba-sj-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/aruba-sj-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/aruba-sj.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Steve Jarvis<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An usual tramway is featured in this series today as we head to the only tramway in the Caribbean on the Dutch island of Aruba which features hydrogen cell technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20829"}],"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=20829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20832,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20829\/revisions\/20832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}