{"id":34957,"date":"2020-07-29T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=34957"},"modified":"2020-07-29T16:29:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:29:16","slug":"trams-stagecoach-supertram-399-206-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=34957","title":{"rendered":"Trams &#038;: Stagecoach Supertram 399 206 &#038; bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield is the latest location for our \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d series as we take a look at one of the tram-trains on test as it is passed by a bus in the city centre.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On 15th September 2017 we find ourselves on Church Street in Sheffield City Centre with tram-train <strong>399 206<\/strong> on a test run\/driver training trip as it approaches the Cathedral tramstop (one of the platforms of which can just be seen ahead of the tram). The actual tram-train service was still 12 months (and a bit!) away from opening and the vehicles were being tested on the remainder of the network with the view of them entering service to boost capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the tram-train is a single-deck bus being operated by First on route 76 to Lowedges. Carrying the number 63019 this bus is a Wrightbus StreetLife.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34958\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=34958\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34958\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34958\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34958\" title=\"206+bus-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/206+bus-gp-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/206+bus-gp-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/206+bus-gp-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/206+bus-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield is the latest location for our \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d series as we take a look at one of the tram-trains on test as it is passed by a bus in the city centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34957"}],"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=34957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34960,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34957\/revisions\/34960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}