{"id":34497,"date":"2020-07-01T18:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=34497"},"modified":"2020-07-01T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T15:24:00","slug":"picture-in-time-luas-3017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=34497","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Luas 3017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next batch of modern tram \u201cPicture in Time\u201d images come from Dublin and the Luas system.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This photo shows <strong>3017<\/strong> at Connolly in 2005, around a year after the first sections of the network had opened. Connolly is on the Red line and was part of the original line opening in 2004; at this time trams ran there from Tallaght but four years later a further extension of the Red line followed to The Point which is a separate to the branch to Connolly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3017<\/strong> is one of the Alstom Citadis 301 trams built in 2003-4 for the opening of Luas, now formed of five sections, but at the time of this photo only a three section tram. It is awaiting at the stop with its destination screen stating \u201cNot In Service\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34498\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=34498\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34498\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34498\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34498\" title=\"3017-sk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3017-sk-550x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3017-sk-550x384.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3017-sk-1024x716.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3017-sk.jpg 1281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Steve Kemp<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next batch of modern tram \u201cPicture in Time\u201d images come from Dublin and the Luas system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34497"}],"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=34497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34501,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34497\/revisions\/34501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}