{"id":36867,"date":"2020-12-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=36867"},"modified":"2020-12-14T16:54:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T16:54:34","slug":"trams-birkenhead-70-69-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=36867","title":{"rendered":"Trams &#038;: Birkenhead 70 &#038; 69 &#038; bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this latest edition of \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d we are going back to the Wirral for an image of a couple of trams alongside a bus.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This image was captured during the Wirral Bus and Tram Show on 4<sup>th<\/sup> October 2015 and is in the yard at Pacific Road which was once home to the trams before the Wirral Heritage Tramway was extended to Taylor Street and is still wired to allow for scenes such as this to be seen. At this Bus and Tram Show both of the specially built Hong Kong trams <strong>70<\/strong> and <strong>69<\/strong> weren\u2019t required for service and so were displayed here along with some buses.<\/p>\n<p>Of those buses immediately alongside the trams is Leyland Atlantean 1032. In Merseyside Transport livery this bus is now preserved and frequently makes appearances at rallies such as the Bus and Tram Show.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36868\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=36868\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36868\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36868\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36868\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/7069bus-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/7069bus-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/7069bus-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/7069bus-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/7069bus.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this latest edition of \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d we are going back to the Wirral for an image of a couple of trams alongside a bus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36867"}],"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=36867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36869,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36867\/revisions\/36869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}