{"id":22244,"date":"2018-05-29T18:08:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T17:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=22244"},"modified":"2018-05-29T18:08:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T17:08:31","slug":"picture-in-time-croydon-tramlink-2548-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=22244","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Croydon Tramlink 2548"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we go back to before Croydon Tramlink started to operate public services with a photo taken during the testing and commissioning period.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This image was captured on 18th August 1999 and shows <strong>2548<\/strong> crossing the flyover across the West Croydon to Sutton railway line with a driver training run. The tram is on the way to Therapia Lane. This is a view which can\u2019t be taken today as the footbridge from which it was taken has now been moved. As for <strong>2548<\/strong> it was delivered to Croydon on 12th April 1999.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22245\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=22245\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22245\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22245\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22245\" title=\"2548-ts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2548-ts-550x388.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2548-ts-550x388.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2548-ts.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Tony Sullivan<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we go back to before Croydon Tramlink started to operate public services with a photo taken during the testing and commissioning period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22244"}],"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=22244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22248,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22244\/revisions\/22248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}