{"id":35873,"date":"2020-10-06T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=35873"},"modified":"2020-10-06T16:31:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T15:31:41","slug":"still-standing-sunderland-district-electric-tramways-philadelphia-depot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=35873","title":{"rendered":"Still Standing! Sunderland District Electric Tramways Philadelphia Depot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today \u201cStill Standing!\u201d is on the way to the northeast as we take a look at a surviving tram depot of the Sunderland District Electric Tramways.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The building on Philadelphia Lane was opened as a tram depot on 10<sup>th<\/sup> June 1905 by the Sunderland District Electric Tramways Ltd with 6 tracks provided in the main shed along with a works section. It was subsequently extended in 1920 but five years later on 12<sup>th<\/sup> July 1925 it was closed as a tram depot for the last time. It was transferred to bus operation following the departure of the last tram and remained in use as a bus depot for many years. It has now passed into industrial use with the current business utilising the building being K B Tyres. The address of the building remains \u201cOld Bus Depot\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35874\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/philadelphia-gb.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35874\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-35874 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/philadelphia-gb-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/philadelphia-gb-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/philadelphia-gb-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/philadelphia-gb-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/philadelphia-gb.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The corrugated sheeting construction from when it was built as a tram depot is still in evidence in this view of the building now in use with KB Tyres. (Photograph by Gordon Bulmer, 11th August 2020)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today \u201cStill Standing!\u201d is on the way to the northeast as we take a look at a surviving tram depot of the Sunderland District Electric Tramways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35873"}],"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=35873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35875,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35873\/revisions\/35875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}