{"id":23093,"date":"2018-07-19T18:07:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T17:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=23093"},"modified":"2018-07-19T18:07:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T17:07:42","slug":"around-the-world-in-trams-grenoble-2046-2052","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=23093","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in Trams: Grenoble 2046 &#038; 2052"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we continue a look at trams from outside of the UK we go to the French city of Grenoble for a view of two trams in service.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Grenoble\u2019s current tram system started operation in 1987 and was the second new French system (after Nantes) during the so-called French tramway renaissance. The network is now 22 miles (35 kilometres) long with five lines in operation; the latest of which opened in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>In this photo we see two Alsthom TFS trams which were both part of a batch built in 1995\/6 \u2013 the fourth and last series of this class for Grenoble with more recent trams being Alstom Citadis. <strong>2046<\/strong> \u2013 on the left \u2013 is working a line B service to Universities whilst we can also see <strong>2050<\/strong> which is on line A to Fontaine La Poya. The date is 22nd May 1999 and we are at the Gares (Station) stop.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23094\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=23094\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23094\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23094\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23094\" title=\"2046+2050-ts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2046+2050-ts-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2046+2050-ts-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2046+2050-ts.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Tony Sullivan<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we continue a look at trams from outside of the UK we go to the French city of Grenoble for a view of two trams in service.<\/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\/23093"}],"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=23093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23096,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23093\/revisions\/23096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}