{"id":31440,"date":"2019-12-11T14:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31440"},"modified":"2019-12-08T10:52:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T10:52:26","slug":"they-ran-in-2019-liverpool-869","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31440","title":{"rendered":"They Ran in 2019: Liverpool 869"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s tram which \u201cRan in 2019\u201d is another of the national collection at Crich \u2013 <strong>Liverpool 869<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->For much of the year <strong>Liverpool 869<\/strong> is used for the Ultimate Driving Experience as members of the public get the chance to get behind the controls for a day of driving at the museum. But that\u2019s not to say that it doesn\u2019t also escape into service at times with its modern, sleek lines and fully enclosed condition proving popular.<\/p>\n<p>The first photo below shows <strong>869<\/strong> in the depot yard preparing to leave for a day in service on 21st September 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=31441\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31441\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-31441\" title=\"1.869-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.869-gp-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.869-gp-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.869-gp-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.869-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Then in this second image, taken on the same day, we catch-up with <strong>869<\/strong> at Glory Mine with it just drawing forward to the very end of the line.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31442\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=31442\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31442\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31442\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31442\" title=\"2.869-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.869-gp-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.869-gp-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.869-gp-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.869-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s tram which \u201cRan in 2019\u201d is another of the national collection at Crich \u2013 Liverpool 869.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31440"}],"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=31440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31444,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31440\/revisions\/31444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}