{"id":25708,"date":"2019-01-24T18:12:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T18:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=25708"},"modified":"2019-01-24T18:12:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T18:12:55","slug":"picture-in-time-leeds-602-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=25708","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Leeds 602"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very popular tram \u2013 part of the static collection at Crich nowadays of course \u2013 with enthusiasts is <strong>Leeds 602<\/strong> and that is the tram which features in today\u2019s look into the photographic archives.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Easily identifiable by its regal Purple livery \u2013 although that effect is rather lost in this black and white photo \u2013 <strong>602<\/strong> was constructed in 1953 as one of two single deck prototypes. It was fitted with VAMBAC equipment \u2013 as also fitted to Blackpool\u2019s Coronation Cars of a similar vintage \u2013 along the addition of other modern equipment but the tram didn\u2019t prove to be a success in its home city. As a non-standard tram it didn\u2019t even last until the end of the tramway with withdrawal coming in 1957. It was acquired for the Tramway Museum Society arriving at Crich in 1960 and since then has seen sporadic periods of operation with its most recent spell ending in 2006. The decision has since been taken not to restore the tram to operational condition with it instead being conserved as is.<\/p>\n<p>The exact date of this photo is not known but it could either be during 1972 or in the period between 1975 and 1976. Crich Stand provides the backdrop for <strong>602<\/strong> as it heads south towards Stephenson Place with \u201cSpecial Car\u201d as the destination.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25709\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=25709\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25709\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25709\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25709\" title=\"602-kc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/602-kc-550x439.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/602-kc-550x439.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/602-kc-1024x818.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/602-kc.jpg 1112w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Keith Chadbourne<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very popular tram \u2013 part of the static collection at Crich nowadays of course \u2013 with enthusiasts is Leeds 602 and that is the tram which features in today\u2019s look into the photographic archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25708"}],"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=25708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25711,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25708\/revisions\/25711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}