{"id":43133,"date":"2022-01-02T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43133"},"modified":"2021-12-22T18:17:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T18:17:33","slug":"15-years-apart-croydon-london-tramlink-2531","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43133","title":{"rendered":"15 Years Apart: Croydon\/London Tramlink 2531"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d we are off to South London as we focus on a CR4000 which operates on the Tramlink network.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>CR4000 <strong>2531<\/strong> is one of the trams built for the opening of the Tramlink system by Bombardier and has remained in service throughout the history of the network. Our first photo shows the tram at Addiscombe when heading into central Croydon from Beckenham Junction on 16<sup>th<\/sup> October 2006. At this point in time the tram retained the original red and white fleet livery although had already seen its roller blinds replaced by an electronic destination display.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43134\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43134\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-43134\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.2531-GP-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.2531-GP-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.2531-GP-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.2531-GP-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.2531-GP.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since we last saw <strong>2531<\/strong> it has carried three different liveries following on from the original red and white \u2013 standard lime green, blue and white fleet livery, an advert for McMillan Williams and now this advert for Taylor Rose MW. On 21<sup>st<\/sup> September 2021 <strong>2531<\/strong> is seen approaching Blackhorse Lane in its latest advert.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43135\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43135\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43135\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43135\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43135\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.2531-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.2531-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.2531-gp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.2531-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.2531-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201c15 Years Apart\u201d we are off to South London as we focus on a CR4000 which operates on the Tramlink network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43133"}],"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=43133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43136,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43133\/revisions\/43136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}