{"id":29014,"date":"2020-01-27T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=29014"},"modified":"2020-01-27T12:27:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T12:27:50","slug":"in-pictures-trams-at-sandtoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=29014","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Trams at Sandtoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sandtoft is most known for its Trolleybus museum \u2013 it has the UK\u2019s largest collection of trolleybuses \u2013 with 60+ trolleybuses on site, many of them operational, but in addition it is also home to a couple of trams. More specifically they are unrestored tram bodies which are serving a new purpose to provide information and a home for some smaller exhibits in the museum collection.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The two tram bodies both come from Sheffield and are from the same batch of 1920 built four wheeler double deckers. Only the lower deck survives of either tram with their identifies being <strong>419<\/strong> and <strong>442<\/strong>. <strong>419<\/strong> is used as an information centre and <strong>442<\/strong> to house small exhibits.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29016\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=29016\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29016\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29016\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29016\" title=\"1.419-kj\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1.419-kj1-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1.419-kj1-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1.419-kj1-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1.419-kj1.jpg 1286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">419 is an information centre. Painted all over green we see the tram here.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_29017\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=29017\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29017\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29017\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29017\" title=\"2.442-kj\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2.442-kj-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2.442-kj-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2.442-kj-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2.442-kj.jpg 1286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The second tram body on site is 442 which is painted brown and white. Situated in the trees here it is used as a display for small exhibits. (Both Photographs by Ken Jones, 27th July 2019)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandtoft is most known for its Trolleybus museum \u2013 it has the UK\u2019s largest collection of trolleybuses \u2013 with 60+ trolleybuses on site, many of them operational, but in addition it is also home to a couple of trams. More &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=29014\">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":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29014"}],"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=29014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32299,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29014\/revisions\/32299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}