{"id":23227,"date":"2018-08-02T19:03:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T18:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=23227"},"modified":"2018-08-02T19:03:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T18:03:51","slug":"around-the-world-in-trams-antwerp-7026-7049","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=23227","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in Trams: Antwerp 7026 &#038; 7049"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We move into Belgium for this week\u2019s worldwide tram image as we feature the system in Antwerp.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Trams first ran in Antwerp in 1873 with conversion from horse to electric operation coming in 1902, with the network remaining in operation today. The system is metre gauge and currently consists of 14 routes, numbered between 2 and 24.<\/p>\n<p>In this photo we see two PCCs on 3rd December 2004. In the front \u2013 and carrying an advertising livery \u2013 is <strong>7026<\/strong> which dates from 1961 whilst it is followed by <strong>7049<\/strong>, dating from a year later, 1962. Both were built by BN.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23228\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=23228\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23228\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23228\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23228\" title=\"7026+7049-np\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/7026+7049-np-550x348.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/7026+7049-np-550x348.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/7026+7049-np-1024x649.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/7026+7049-np.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Nigel Pennick<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We move into Belgium for this week\u2019s worldwide tram image as we feature the system in Antwerp.<\/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\/23227"}],"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=23227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23230,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23227\/revisions\/23230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}