{"id":43189,"date":"2021-12-27T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43189"},"modified":"2021-12-22T18:56:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T18:56:29","slug":"they-ran-in-2021-amsterdam-474-blackpool-159","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43189","title":{"rendered":"They Ran in 2021: Amsterdam 474 &#038; Blackpool 159"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its two for the price of one in today\u2019s edition of \u201cThey Ran in 2021\u201d! We take a trip to the East Anglia Transport Museum.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For a lot of 2021 there were only two trams available for service at the East Anglia Transport Museum (although that changed during December when <strong>London Transport 1858<\/strong> was recommissioned for service). Those two trams were <strong>Amsterdam 474<\/strong> \u2013 which itself was only returned to action during the year after works attention \u2013 and stalwart of the fleet, <strong>Blackpool Standard 159<\/strong>. On any normal operating day at Carlton Colville trams alternate in running up into the woods and they are joined in operating by a selection of trolleybuses \u2013 and not forgetting the East Suffolk Light Railway!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43190\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43190\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43190\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43190\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43190\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/159474-tm-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/159474-tm-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/159474-tm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/159474-tm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/159474-tm.jpg 1273w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo was taken during the annual Trolleybus Weekend in September and shows both of the trams at the Chapel Road terminus. They are joined immediately to the right by Maidstone trolleybus no. 52 with a further two trolleybuses also seen in the image. (Photograph by Tim Major, 26th September 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its two for the price of one in today\u2019s edition of \u201cThey Ran in 2021\u201d! We take a trip to the East Anglia Transport Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,98],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43189"}],"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=43189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43191,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43189\/revisions\/43191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}