{"id":39968,"date":"2021-06-16T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=39968"},"modified":"2021-06-12T17:12:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T16:12:50","slug":"lockdown-walks-edinburgh-trams-267","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=39968","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Walks: Edinburgh Trams 267"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its another trip out to the Gyle Centre on Edinburgh Trams for this edition of \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At the Gyle Centre you will find a section of grassed track, installed so as to make the environment that the trams run through a bit more pleasant and attraction \u2013 its certainly better than just plain old ballast that\u2019s for sure. A fairly recent addition to tramways in the UK, there is another high-profile section like this on the West Midlands Metro to the city side of the St Chads stop.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39969\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=39969\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39969\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39969\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39969\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/267-jh-550x388.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/267-jh-550x388.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/267-jh-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/267-jh.jpg 846w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This picture shows 267 leaving the Gyle Centre tram stop through the neatly manicured grass track on its way to York Place. (Photograph by John Hampton)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its another trip out to the Gyle Centre on Edinburgh Trams for this edition of \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d.<\/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\/39968"}],"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=39968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39970,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39968\/revisions\/39970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}