{"id":43794,"date":"2022-02-12T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43794"},"modified":"2022-02-12T14:47:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T14:47:13","slug":"around-the-world-in-trams-tallinn-173","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43794","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in Trams: Tallinn 173"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next stop on our world tour of trams is Tallinn in Estonia.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The tram network in the Estonia capital city of Tallinn is a 3 foot 6 inch gauge 20km network. All the lines of the network meet in the city centre forming a rough cruciform shape. Trams first ran in the city in 1888 (horse) with steam trams following in 1915, petrol trams in 1921 before electrification finally came in 1925. Its only 3 foot 6 inches since 1931; before then it ran on the unusual gauge of 5 foot.<\/p>\n<p>During this visit on 17<sup>th<\/sup> July 2010 we start off with an image of no. <strong>173<\/strong> working on route 4. This tram is a Tatra KT4D which was new to Erfurt in Germany before being transferred to Estonia during 2009 \u2013 only around a year before this image was captured.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43795\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43795\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43795\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43795\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43795\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/173-jm-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/173-jm-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/173-jm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/173-jm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/173-jm-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/173-jm-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by John Moore<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next stop on our world tour of trams is Tallinn in Estonia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43794"}],"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=43794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43796,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43794\/revisions\/43796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}