{"id":29582,"date":"2019-09-01T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=29582"},"modified":"2019-09-01T10:03:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T09:03:40","slug":"in-pictures-a-revised-name-for-a-tram-stop-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=29582","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: A revised name for a tram stop in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Edinburgh Trams opened some five and a bit years ago one of the city centre tram stops has been known as West End Princes Street (although had been scheduled to be called Shandwick Place in pre-opening publicity) \u2013 but no longer! Recently noted at the stop is the removal of the Princes Street part of the name with the signs now just saying West End. It is thought that this has been done so as to prevent visitors to the city wanting the main street alighting here as they still find themselves some distance from where they are likely to want to be, although quite why its taken five years to work this out is unknown!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29583\" style=\"width: 293px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=29583\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29583\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29583\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29583\" title=\"1.westend-rc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1.westend-rc-283x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1.westend-rc-283x550.jpg 283w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1.westend-rc-527x1024.jpg 527w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1.westend-rc.jpg 1054w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original name West End \u2013 Princes Street.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_29584\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=29584\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29584\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29584\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29584\" title=\"2.274-rc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2.274-rc-550x414.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2.274-rc-550x414.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2.274-rc-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2.274-rc.jpg 1293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On 24th August and the Princes Street part of the name has been removed just as passengers await an outbound tram with 274 heading to York Place. (Both Photographs by Roy Calderwood)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Edinburgh Trams opened some five and a bit years ago one of the city centre tram stops has been known as West End Princes Street (although had been scheduled to be called Shandwick Place in pre-opening publicity) \u2013 but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=29582\">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":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29582"}],"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=29582"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29670,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29582\/revisions\/29670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}