{"id":40575,"date":"2021-07-23T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40575"},"modified":"2021-07-17T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T14:33:11","slug":"lockdown-walks-edinburgh-trams-260-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40575","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Walks: Edinburgh Trams 260"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d is off to Edinburgh again as we head off out of the city centre.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The stop at Balgreen on the Edinburgh Trams system is located on the site of Balgreen Halt which was built by the LNER in 1934 on the Corstorphine branch. Before then there was also a temporary halt located here built by the North British Railway in 1908 to serve the nearby Scottish National Exhibition which took place in nearby Saughton Park.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40576\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=40576\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40576\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40576\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/260-rc-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/260-rc-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/260-rc-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/260-rc-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/260-rc.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo shows 260 at Balgreen with a citybound service for York Place. (Photograph by Roy Calderwood, 29th June 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d is off to Edinburgh again as we head off out of the city centre.<\/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\/40575"}],"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=40575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40577,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40575\/revisions\/40577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}