{"id":26290,"date":"2019-02-28T18:03:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T18:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26290"},"modified":"2019-02-28T18:03:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T18:03:32","slug":"picture-in-time-seaton-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26290","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Seaton 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of three trams at the Seaton Tramway which started off life as a \u201cfull size\u201d tram (in this case 3\u20196\u201d gauge) is no. <strong>16<\/strong>. A former Bournemouth Corporation vehicle this is the tram that features in today\u2019s Picture in the Time.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Originally built in 1921 by Brush <strong>106<\/strong> was an open top tram which remained in service until the end of the tramway in Bournemouth in 1936. Although a number of trams from the same batch were sold on for further use in Llandudno <strong>106<\/strong> was not one of these but it was not scrapped and instead sold on for domestic use. Rescued in 1974 the remains of the tram were presented to the Seaton Tramway who set upon converting it into a single deck saloon. This work was completed in 1992 and the tram has remained in use ever since; often being the first choice tram for Driver Experiences whilst also being popular in this colder winter months.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Driver Experience that is exactly what <strong>16<\/strong> was in use for in this 2003 view at Colyton with the tram at the northern extremity of the Seaton Tramway.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26291\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=26291\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26291\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26291\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26291\" title=\"16-nd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/16-nd-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/16-nd-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/16-nd-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/16-nd.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Noel Downie<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of three trams at the Seaton Tramway which started off life as a \u201cfull size\u201d tram (in this case 3\u20196\u201d gauge) is no. 16. A former Bournemouth Corporation vehicle this is the tram that features in today\u2019s Picture in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26290\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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\/26290"}],"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=26290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26294,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26290\/revisions\/26294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}