{"id":33784,"date":"2020-05-19T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33784"},"modified":"2020-05-19T16:18:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:18:46","slug":"around-the-world-in-trams-melbourne-906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33784","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in Trams: Melbourne 906"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A second W-class Melbourne tram is also operational at MOTAT and it is that tram which we feature this week in \u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As with <strong>893<\/strong> that featured last time, <strong>906<\/strong> is a SW6 class of tram from Melbourne. This example entered service in November 1945 and its subsequent history is very similar to that of <strong>893<\/strong> with it remaining in service until 1997 when it was taken out of use and became part of the Ready Reserve Fleet. It was to make the trip to Auckland a bit earlier though as it was in 2006 that it was to be transported across. It has since been painted in a special Red and Cream livery and remains operational at MOTAT.<\/p>\n<p>These two images show <strong>906<\/strong> at MOTAT on 27th February 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=33785\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33785\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-33785\" title=\"1.906-DM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1.906-DM-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1.906-DM-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1.906-DM-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1.906-DM.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33786\" style=\"width: 422px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=33786\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33786\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33786\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33786\" title=\"2.906-dm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2.906-dm-412x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2.906-dm-412x550.jpg 412w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2.906-dm-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2.906-dm.jpg 968w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by David Maxwell<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second W-class Melbourne tram is also operational at MOTAT and it is that tram which we feature this week in \u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33784"}],"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=33784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33788,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33784\/revisions\/33788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}