{"id":26877,"date":"2019-04-09T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26877"},"modified":"2019-04-09T18:37:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T17:37:40","slug":"in-pictures-beamish-getting-ready-for-great-north-steam-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26877","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Beamish getting ready for Great North Steam Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The school Easter Holidays are upon us and it is very nearly time for the biggest transport event of the year at Beamish \u2013 the Great North Steam Fair. With the museum busier than recently on a weekday, Tuesday 9th April 2019 saw a four tram service in operation; <strong>Sunderland 16<\/strong> and <strong>Blackpool 31<\/strong> were running on the clockwise circuit with <strong>Newcastle 114<\/strong> and <strong>Oporto 196<\/strong> operating anti-clockwise.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The two visiting trams \u2013 <strong>Blackpool &amp; Fleetwood 40<\/strong> and <strong>Manchester 765<\/strong> in case you\u2019ve forgotten! \u2013 remained in the depot with <strong>765<\/strong> now on Road 1 and <strong>40<\/strong> on Road 3. There has been further movement around the depot with <strong>Oporto C65<\/strong> now back in its former space on road 4 with its place at the head of road 2 now taken by <strong>Sheffield 264<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26878\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=26878\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26878\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26878\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26878\" title=\"DEPOT-th\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DEPOT-th-550x434.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DEPOT-th-550x434.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DEPOT-th.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the depot on 9th April showing Sheffield 264 in front of Grimsby &amp; Immingham 26 (Gateshead 10) on Road 2. Blackpool &amp; Fleetwood 40 is alongside on Road 3. (Photograph by Trevor Hall, 9th April 2019)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The school Easter Holidays are upon us and it is very nearly time for the biggest transport event of the year at Beamish \u2013 the Great North Steam Fair. With the museum busier than recently on a weekday, Tuesday 9th &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26877\">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":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26877"}],"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=26877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26881,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26877\/revisions\/26881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}