{"id":31534,"date":"2020-04-18T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31534"},"modified":"2020-04-18T10:43:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T09:43:46","slug":"in-pictures-portsmouth-84-at-milestones-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31534","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Portsmouth 84 at Milestones Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the fully intact tram which is closest to <em>British Trams Online<\/em> headquarters but barely gets mentioned (indeed I\u2019ve personally only ever seen it once in a visit many years ago!) so its time to change all that! The tram we are talking about is the sole surviving Portsmouth tram, no. <strong>84<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The tram was converted from a horse car in 1903 having originally been built in 1880 for use on the North Metropolitan Tramways Co. Ltd in London. As can be seen below it was a double deck open topper and operated on the strange 4ft 7 3\/4in gauge tramway before being withdrawn and used as a railgrinder until the system closed in 1936. Eventually rescued for preservation the tram was restored to its passenger tram condition and has been on display at the Milestones Museum on the outskirts of Basingstoke, Hampshire since 1st December 2000 when the museum opened to the public.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31535\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=31535\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31535\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31535\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31535\" title=\"1.84-bh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.84-bh-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.84-bh-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.84-bh-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.84-bh.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sitting on a piece of track in a street scene this is 84 in pride of place at Milestones.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_31536\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=31536\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31536\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31536\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31536\" title=\"2.84-bh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.84-bh-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.84-bh-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.84-bh-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.84-bh.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lower deck interior of 84.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_31537\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=31537\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31537\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31537\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31537\" title=\"3.84-bh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/3.84-bh-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/3.84-bh-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/3.84-bh-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/3.84-bh.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A close-up of the controller. (All Photographs by Bob Hodges)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the fully intact tram which is closest to British Trams Online headquarters but barely gets mentioned (indeed I\u2019ve personally only ever seen it once in a visit many years ago!) so its time to change all that! The tram &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31534\">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\/31534"}],"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=31534"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33378,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31534\/revisions\/33378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}