{"id":33951,"date":"2020-05-30T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33951"},"modified":"2020-05-29T19:44:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T18:44:05","slug":"trams-llandudno-colwyn-bay-electric-railway-7-arriva-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=33951","title":{"rendered":"Trams &#038;: Llandudno &#038; Colwyn Bay Electric Railway 7 &#038; Arriva bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We take another look at <strong>Llandudno &amp; Colwyn Bay Electric Railway 7<\/strong> with a bus for company in this edition of \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As we\u2019ve already featured <strong>7<\/strong> in this series we don\u2019t need to go into much detail on the tram, which as we\u2019ve seen before was restored into a Llandudno &amp; Colwyn Bay tram in time to celebrate the centenary of the opening of the line which was in 2007. It has since been a fixture at many events since, including one trip to the Wirral Bus &amp; Tram Show.<\/p>\n<p>In this view, taken on 1st August 2009, we are in Llandudno and sees <strong>7<\/strong> being pursued by an Arriva open top bus towards the West Shore terminus. This was a common sight up until the closure of the tramway in March 1956, although at that time the buses were all green Crossville vehicles!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33952\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=33952\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33952\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33952\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33952\" title=\"7+bus-jb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/7+bus-jb-550x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/7+bus-jb-550x246.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/7+bus-jb.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by John Bird<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We take another look at Llandudno &amp; Colwyn Bay Electric Railway 7 with a bus for company in this edition of \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33951"}],"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=33951"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33955,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33951\/revisions\/33955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}