{"id":23395,"date":"2018-08-11T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=23395"},"modified":"2018-08-11T15:31:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T14:31:07","slug":"picture-in-time-oporto-150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=23395","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Oporto 150"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing our look at trams from the early days of Summerlee before more local trams were restored for service. This time we take a look at <strong>Oporto 150<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This tram was purchased as a source of spare parts and was the third complete tram to arrive at the museum although it was never destined to operate in service but did manage a few runs along the tram route on test. The trucks and controllers of <strong>150<\/strong> were eventually used in the restoration of <strong>Lanarkshire 53<\/strong> and the Oporto tram was scrapped with its purpose achieved.<\/p>\n<p>In this photo we see <strong>150<\/strong> \u2013 still carrying an all over advert for Air Portugal from its days in service back in its home country \u2013 stabled looking a little sorry for itself.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23396\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=23396\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23396\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23396\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23396\" title=\"150-stg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/150-stg-550x336.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/150-stg-550x336.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/150-stg-1024x626.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/150-stg.jpg 1261w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph courtesy of Summerlee Transport Group<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing our look at trams from the early days of Summerlee before more local trams were restored for service. This time we take a look at Oporto 150.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23395"}],"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=23395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23398,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23395\/revisions\/23398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}