{"id":38966,"date":"2021-04-07T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=38966"},"modified":"2021-04-03T12:18:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T11:18:12","slug":"still-standing-lcc-section-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=38966","title":{"rendered":"Still Standing! LCC Section Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201cStill Standing!\u201d we find a London County Council Tramways section box \u2013 nowhere near where any trams ran!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the below photo this is a 1928 section box and can be found at Upminster District line and C2C station. The mystery of this is that the nearest tramway to Upminster would have been the former Ilford Corporation line to Chadwell Heath which was converted to trolleybuses on 6<sup>th<\/sup> February 1938. Quite how the box came to end up here is unknown but possibly was moved following the closure of the tramways and repurposed here just not for trams!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38967\" style=\"width: 369px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=38967\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38967\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38967\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38967\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/lccjunctionbox-bh-359x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/lccjunctionbox-bh-359x550.jpg 359w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/lccjunctionbox-bh-668x1024.jpg 668w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/lccjunctionbox-bh-768x1176.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/lccjunctionbox-bh.jpg 848w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This image was captured on 3rd December 2016. (Photograph by Bob Hodges)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201cStill Standing!\u201d we find a London County Council Tramways section box \u2013 nowhere near where any trams ran!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38966"}],"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=38966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38968,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38966\/revisions\/38968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}