{"id":24719,"date":"2018-11-22T18:16:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T18:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=24719"},"modified":"2018-11-22T18:16:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T18:16:03","slug":"picture-in-time-croydon-tramlink-2546-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=24719","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Croydon Tramlink 2546"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Croydon is the location for today\u2019s instalment of Picture in Time as we take a look at one of the early advert liveries on CR4000 <strong>2546<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In this image we see <strong>2546<\/strong> just arriving at New Addington on 4th July 2000 \u2013 just a few months after public service has begun. This location today is very much the same as seen in this photo although the ballast isn\u2019t nearly as clean! The roller destination blinds have already been amended for its return trip to West Croydon \u2013 at this time all trams from New Addington ran around the central Croydon loop, a service was has returned during 2018 following a recasting of the Tramlink timetable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2546<\/strong> is in an all over advert for the Whitgift Shopping Centre which had been applied in November 1999, well ahead of the opening of the system.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24720\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=24720\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24720\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24720\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24720\" title=\"2546-ts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2546-ts-550x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2546-ts-550x384.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2546-ts.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Tony Sullivan<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Croydon is the location for today\u2019s instalment of Picture in Time as we take a look at one of the early advert liveries on CR4000 2546.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24719"}],"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=24719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24722,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24719\/revisions\/24722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}