{"id":38369,"date":"2021-02-20T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=38369"},"modified":"2021-02-19T18:19:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T18:19:29","slug":"lockdown-walks-edinburgh-trams-261-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=38369","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Walks: Edinburgh Trams 261"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d we are again heading north of the border to the only new tramway in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With the continuing Covid situation across the British Isles passenger numbers on all tramway systems continue to be very low with the \u201cStay At Home\u201d message very much still key in order to try and limit the spread as we al wait for the golden vaccination ticket. When the below photo was taken there were just three people waiting for the tram on the platform \u2013 at one of the more popular stops on the network at Haymarket \u2013 with a further handful already on board. A far cry from 12 months earlier.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38370\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=38370\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38370\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38370\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/261-rc-413x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/261-rc-413x550.jpg 413w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/261-rc-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/261-rc-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/261-rc.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">261 is seen here just calling at Haymarket bound for the Airport. The tram retains its masks on each end and is advert free. Typical February weather of rain and grey skies met the photographer as he captured the image. Roseberry House is to the left and Citypoint straight ahead. (Photograph by Roy Calderwood, 4th February 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d we are again heading north of the border to the only new tramway in Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,88],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38369"}],"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=38369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38371,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38369\/revisions\/38371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}