{"id":28485,"date":"2019-06-30T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=28485"},"modified":"2019-06-30T09:15:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T08:15:10","slug":"around-the-world-in-trams-madrid-1106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=28485","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in Trams: Madrid 1106"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We return to Europe as part of our world tour this week with a trip to Madrid in 1972 \u2013 the last year of traditional tramway operation in the city.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This view shows no. <strong>1106<\/strong> operating on route 70 between Plaza de Castilla and San Blas which was one of the last two routes to remain as the tramway was wound down. The tramway started operation back in 1871 and 1972 was to be the end but just 35 years later in 2007 a new modern tramway would start running showing its not just the UK where trams have made a triumphant return!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28486\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=28486\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28486\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28486\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28486\" title=\"1106-jh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1106-jh-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1106-jh-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1106-jh-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1106-jh.jpg 1283w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by John Hibbert<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We return to Europe as part of our world tour this week with a trip to Madrid in 1972 \u2013 the last year of traditional tramway operation in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28485"}],"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=28485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28488,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28485\/revisions\/28488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}