{"id":40809,"date":"2022-08-02T21:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40809"},"modified":"2024-01-18T19:44:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T19:44:22","slug":"in-pictures-douglas-bay-horse-tramway-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40809","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Douglas Bay Horse Tramway 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you think of double-deck horse trams on the Isle of Man you are likely to immediately think of <strong>18<\/strong> as the operational tram on the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway. But it isn\u2019t the only double-decker which remains on the island as no. <strong>14<\/strong> can be found in the Manx Museum in Douglas.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Unlike <strong>18<\/strong> which was rebuilt as a double-decker in 1988, <strong>14<\/strong> has always been a double-decker although hasn\u2019t always been numbered <strong>14<\/strong>! Built in 1883 by Metropolitan Carriage &amp; Wagon Co in Saltley it originally operated in South Shields before purchased for use in Douglas in 1887. It was originally numbered <strong>13<\/strong> but was renumbered to <strong>14<\/strong> in 1908 (after the original <strong>14<\/strong> \u2013 also from South Shields \u2013 was destroyed by a rock fall at the back of the depot). <strong>14<\/strong> spent\u00a0 a period of time at the Clapham Transport Museum in London but returned to the island for the tramway\u2019s centenary in 1976. 15 years later \u2013 in 1991 \u2013 it was moved to the Manx Museum and that is where it can still be found to this day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40810\" style=\"width: 353px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=40810\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40810\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40810\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40810\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/13-js-343x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/13-js-343x550.jpg 343w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/13-js-638x1024.jpg 638w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/13-js-768x1233.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/13-js.jpg 795w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">14 is seen at the Manx Museum here, still in its 1976 centenary livery. (Photograph by Jim Smythe, 28th July 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think of double-deck horse trams on the Isle of Man you are likely to immediately think of 18 as the operational tram on the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway. But it isn\u2019t the only double-decker which remains on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40809\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40809"}],"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=40809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40811,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40809\/revisions\/40811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}