{"id":31804,"date":"2019-12-26T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31804"},"modified":"2019-12-20T21:38:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T21:38:58","slug":"15-years-apart-leeds-345","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=31804","title":{"rendered":"15 Years Apart: Leeds 345"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We take a look at another tram which has changed a lot over the past 15 years today. It is <strong>Leeds 345<\/strong> which was in the midst of a major restoration in 2004 and is now firmly operational.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We start off in 2004 and we find <strong>Leeds 345<\/strong> as a single deck tram in the workshop at Crich! The restoration of <strong>345<\/strong> had started two years earlier in 2002 and it would be a further two years before it would enter service with the upper deck structure being kept separately on a truck whilst work concentrated on the lower deck. Good progress on the external structure was being made but there was still a great deal of work to be done before it could return to action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=31805\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31805\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-31805\" title=\"1.345-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.345-gp1-378x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.345-gp1-378x550.jpg 378w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.345-gp1-704x1024.jpg 704w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1.345-gp1.jpg 771w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To 2019 now and <strong>Leeds 345<\/strong> looks every inch a stunning example of what comes out of the conservation workshop at Crich \u2013 and its now a double-decker once more! Having entered service in 2006 it spent a period out of use from 2010 before again returning to operational use in 2012 and has remained active ever since. We see the tram on 22nd September at Glory Mine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31806\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=31806\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31806\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31806\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31806\" title=\"2.345-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.345-gp1-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.345-gp1-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.345-gp1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2.345-gp1.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We take a look at another tram which has changed a lot over the past 15 years today. It is Leeds 345 which was in the midst of a major restoration in 2004 and is now firmly operational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31804"}],"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=31804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31808,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31804\/revisions\/31808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}