{"id":32503,"date":"2020-02-09T17:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=32503"},"modified":"2020-02-09T08:44:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T08:44:22","slug":"picture-in-time-snaefell-mountain-railway-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=32503","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Snaefell Mountain Railway 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For one final time in this batch we head to the Isle of Man and the Snaefell Mountain Railway during 1979.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This week in fact we feature the very same tram as we did last week \u2013 no. <strong>2<\/strong>. As with all the passenger trams which have travelled up Snaefell over the past 125 years, <strong>2<\/strong> can trace its history back to 1895 when it was built by G F Milnes in Birkenhead before being shipped over to the Isle of Man. A mere 84 years old when this photo was taken, <strong>2<\/strong> looks very much as it does today in this image at the Summit alongside the caf\u00e9\/hotel with the traditional teak and red livery style in evidence. Judging by the lady on the far left of this shot there may be a blue sky but it is still a chilly day at the highest spot of the Isle of Man.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32504\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=32504\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32504\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32504\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32504\" title=\"2b-bp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2b-bp-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2b-bp-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2b-bp-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2b-bp.jpg 1270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Bob Price<\/p><\/div>\n<p>* Further archive photos from Bob Price can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/158639093@N06\/albums\">Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For one final time in this batch we head to the Isle of Man and the Snaefell Mountain Railway during 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32503"}],"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=32503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32507,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32503\/revisions\/32507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}