{"id":30139,"date":"2019-09-26T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=30139"},"modified":"2019-09-25T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T20:30:07","slug":"picture-in-time-sheffield-264-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=30139","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Sheffield 264"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s main edition of Picture in Time is back at Crich for another look at the 1973 Transport Extravaganza with another tram featured which is no longer part of the operational fleet \u2013 <strong>Sheffield 264<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Sheffield 264<\/strong> (one of two trams in preservation to retain this number) was built in 1937 and was retained as part of the operational fleet on its home system until the very last day of service on 8th October 1960 when obviously it was withdrawn from service. Purchased privately by an enthusiast the tram remained at Queen\u2019s Road Depot where it was a stable mate of many other trams which would end up at Crich with it arriving on site in Derbyshire in December 1960. It was to a further 10 years before it would run at Crich after restoration with it first featuring in service at that year\u2019s Transport Extravaganza. It would remain operational until 1980 when withdrawal came and it has remained a static exhibit since. It can today be found in the Great Exhibition Hall.<\/p>\n<p>This photo shows <strong>264<\/strong> in action at the Extravaganza of three years later with the tram heading up the line past the quarry. Note the lack of fence between tramway and quarry!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30140\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=30140\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30140\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30140\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30140\" title=\"264-db\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/264-db-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/264-db-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/264-db-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/264-db.jpg 1247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Donald Brooks<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s main edition of Picture in Time is back at Crich for another look at the 1973 Transport Extravaganza with another tram featured which is no longer part of the operational fleet \u2013 Sheffield 264.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30139"}],"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=30139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30142,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30139\/revisions\/30142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}