{"id":36975,"date":"2020-12-26T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=36975"},"modified":"2020-12-20T11:02:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T11:02:57","slug":"15-years-apart-london-tramlink-2544","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=36975","title":{"rendered":"15 Years Apart: London Tramlink 2544"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the only time in \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d for 2020 we take a trip to London Tramlink to see the changes in one of the original CR4000 trams.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We are looking at <strong>2544<\/strong> in these photos which was one of 24 trams built by Bombardier for the opening of the Tramlink system between 1998 and 1999. Constructed in Austria they were delivered to Therapia Lane Depot between 13<sup>th<\/sup> September 1998 and 7<sup>th<\/sup> June 1999 with this particular example turning up on 8<sup>th<\/sup> March 1999. In this photo taken on 1<sup>st<\/sup> November 2005 we see <strong>2544<\/strong> just approaching Mitcham Junction with a service to Wimbledon. Its in the original Red and White livery and retains roller destination blinds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=36976\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36976\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-36976\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1.2544-gp-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1.2544-gp-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1.2544-gp-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1.2544-gp-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1.2544-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We catch-up with <strong>2544<\/strong> again on 30<sup>th<\/sup> January 2020 as it has just departed from Fieldway on the New Addington branch with a service which will run round the central Croydon loop and then back to New Addington. There are two obvious changes for the tram over the past 15 years \u2013 it has now received the current Tramlink livery of green, blue and white and the destination blinds have now gone electronic.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36977\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=36977\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36977\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36977\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36977\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2.2544-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2.2544-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2.2544-gp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2.2544-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2.2544-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the only time in \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d for 2020 we take a trip to London Tramlink to see the changes in one of the original CR4000 trams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36975"}],"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=36975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36978,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36975\/revisions\/36978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}