{"id":22437,"date":"2018-06-07T18:41:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T17:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=22437"},"modified":"2018-06-07T18:41:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T17:41:40","slug":"around-the-world-in-trams-coastal-tramway-6105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=22437","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in Trams: Coastal Tramway 6105"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are back on our world travels as we resume our look at trams from around the world each Thursday and todat we are off to the coast as we take a look at the longest tram ride in the world \u2013 Belgium\u2019s Coastal Tram.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A metre gauge line the Coast Tram runs between DePanne (close to the border with France) and Knokke-Heist connecting the entire Belgian coast. It is 42 miles long (68 kilometres).<\/p>\n<p>This shot shows <strong>6105<\/strong> on 12th August 1997. At this time the tram was in an all over advert and we see the tram turning out of the stop next to Blankenberge Station with a service for Knokke. This tram was built by BN as part of a batch in 1982.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22438\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=22438\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22438\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22438\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22438\" title=\"6105-ts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/6105-ts-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/6105-ts-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/6105-ts.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Tony Sullivan<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are back on our world travels as we resume our look at trams from around the world each Thursday and todat we are off to the coast as we take a look at the longest tram ride in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=22437\">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":[63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22437"}],"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=22437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22440,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22437\/revisions\/22440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}