{"id":23015,"date":"2018-10-25T21:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=23015"},"modified":"2018-10-20T20:06:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T19:06:23","slug":"in-pictures-nottingham-corporation-tramways-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=23015","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Nottingham Corporation Tramways 45"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a system which closed for the last time in 1936 there are a number of Nottingham Corporation Tramways tram bodies which have remained intact in various states. As well as several parts of trams from this network being in the care of the Tramway Museum Society \u2013 albeit all stored at Clay Cross waiting their turn for restoration (with the likelihood only one will ever run again and that will be a very long-term project) \u2013 there is the lower saloon of a further tram at the Great Central Railway (North) at Ruddington. This is the remains of no. <strong>45<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>45<\/strong> was built by ERTCW as a double deck open topper in 1901 and following withdrawal from service was sold on for further use with it finding its way to a caravan park. There is remained until the mid 1980s when it was rescued for preservation to the Nottingham Industrial Museum. A further move followed in 1996 to the Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre in Ruddington which has now developed into the Great Central Railway North. Only the lower deck remains and it is stored outside but is in a generally good condition.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23016\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=23016\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23016\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23016\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23016\" title=\"45-KJ\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/45-KJ-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/45-KJ-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/45-KJ-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/45-KJ.jpg 1286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">45 is seen at Ruddington on 15th July 2018. (Photograph by Ken Jones)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a system which closed for the last time in 1936 there are a number of Nottingham Corporation Tramways tram bodies which have remained intact in various states. As well as several parts of trams from this network being in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=23015\">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\/23015"}],"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=23015"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24384,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23015\/revisions\/24384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}