{"id":36941,"date":"2020-12-23T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=36941"},"modified":"2020-12-20T10:38:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T10:38:07","slug":"trams-london-transport-1858-blackpool-159-trolleybus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=36941","title":{"rendered":"Trams &#038;: London Transport 1858, Blackpool 159 &#038; trolleybus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTrams &amp;\u201d continues today as we head to the East Anglia Transport Museum and a regularly captured scene.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Chapel Road terminus at the East Anglia Transport Museum in Carlton Colville is a location you will have often seen featured on these pages whether that be just showing a tram or a tram and a trolleybus and in today\u2019s photo taken on 25<sup>th<\/sup> May 2015 we see two trams plus a trolleybus pausing between journeys on their respective routes.<\/p>\n<p>The two trams are the two long-standing operating cars at the museum with <strong>London Transport 1858<\/strong> on the left and <strong>Blackpool Standard 159<\/strong> in the centre of the image. The chances are if you have visited the museum at some point over the past 40 years you will have seen one or the other \u2013 if not both \u2013 of these in service and they are truly the workhorses of the tram fleet. The trams are joined in this photo by Belfast trolleybus 246. A Sunbeam trolleybus this was built in 1958 and is now based at Carlton Colville although has also operated in preservation at the Black Country Living Museum.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36942\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=36942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36942\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36942\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36942\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1858159trolleybus-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1858159trolleybus-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1858159trolleybus-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1858159trolleybus-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1858159trolleybus.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTrams &amp;\u201d continues today as we head to the East Anglia Transport Museum and a regularly captured scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36941"}],"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=36941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36943,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36941\/revisions\/36943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}