{"id":23952,"date":"2018-09-22T19:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=23952"},"modified":"2018-09-20T00:02:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T23:02:58","slug":"picture-in-time-seaton-tramway-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=23952","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Seaton Tramway 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are off to Devon for our latest delve into the archives \u2013 the photo features the only tram still at Seaton withdrawn from service, no. <strong>7<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>7<\/strong> is a tram which has featured quite a few times in this series so we will just look at the basics of its history this time around. Built in 1958 <strong>7<\/strong> was one of the trams originally constructed to the 2 foot gauge of the Eastbourne operation but wasn\u2019t regauged to 2 foot 9 inches until 1976 \u2013 six years after the operation had move along the coast. It remained in service for the next 31 years before withdrawal in 2007. It has remained stored at the back of the depot ever since and although some work on an overhaul was undertaken in the early years of its withdrawal it has remained out of service for over 10 years now.<\/p>\n<p>We see the tram here approaching Seaton through the old car park in 2003.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23953\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=23953\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23953\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23953\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23953\" title=\"7-nd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/7-nd-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/7-nd-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/7-nd-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/7-nd.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Noel Downie<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are off to Devon for our latest delve into the archives \u2013 the photo features the only tram still at Seaton withdrawn from service, no. 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23952"}],"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=23952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23955,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23952\/revisions\/23955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}