{"id":38606,"date":"2021-03-12T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=38606"},"modified":"2021-03-06T13:53:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T13:53:07","slug":"picture-in-time-sheffield-264-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=38606","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Sheffield 264"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One final trip to Beamish in this week\u2019s \u201cPicture in Time\u201d as we take a look at a rather scruffy looking <strong>Sheffield 264<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today if you think about Beamish\u2019s <strong>Sheffield 264<\/strong> (not to be confused by Crich\u2019s <strong>Sheffield 264<\/strong>!) you will probably think of a resplendent tram with a nice bright and shiny coat of Sheffield Corporation blue and cream paint. But it hasn\u2019t always been so as before its last overhaul it has spent some time looking a little less than pristine as it waited for some much needed works attention. These below photos are un-dated but may have been taken when <strong>264<\/strong> was displayed in the Town to gain publicity and support for its last overhaul during one of the April special events. They show <strong>264<\/strong> running in the Town showing how its paintwork needed some attention (and that\u2019s not considering all the electrical and bodywork which was needed as well).<\/p>\n<p><strong>264<\/strong> was built in 1907 and ran in Sheffield until 1956, by which time it had been renumbered <strong>342<\/strong>. It was displayed at the Clapham Transport Museum before it returned north, eventually arriving at Beamish in 1973. Temporarily converted into an open topper and painted in Gateshead colours it ran like this until 1985 when it was restored to the open balcony condition we know today. Withdrawn again in 2002 a further restoration followed and it is now a regular performer in service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=38607\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38607\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-38607\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1.264-cs-303x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1.264-cs-303x550.jpg 303w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1.264-cs.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38608\" style=\"width: 371px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=38608\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38608\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38608\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38608\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2.264-cs-361x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"361\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2.264-cs-361x550.jpg 361w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2.264-cs.jpg 371w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Colin Schorah<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One final trip to Beamish in this week\u2019s \u201cPicture in Time\u201d as we take a look at a rather scruffy looking Sheffield 264.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38606"}],"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=38606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38609,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38606\/revisions\/38609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}