{"id":44252,"date":"2022-03-21T18:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=44252"},"modified":"2022-03-16T19:58:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T19:58:51","slug":"trams-london-tramlink-2559-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=44252","title":{"rendered":"Trams &#038;: London Tramlink 2559 &#038; bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this latest instalment of \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d we are off to South London as we take a look at a tram running on the Tramlink system along with the distinctive sight of a red London bus.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This image is taken on Addiscombe Road in Croydon where the trams share the road with other road traffic before they go segregated again at Sandilands. There is one intermediate stop along Addiscombe Road, that at Lebanon Road which has staggered platforms either side of the road. We are at Lebanon Road on 21<sup>st<\/sup> September 2021 for this photo where <strong>Variobahn 2559<\/strong> is just calling at the stop with a service from Wimbledon to Beckenham Junction.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the tram is a Wright Gemini 2 bus which is being operated by Arriva. With the registration number of LJ62 BBZ and the fleet number DW 506 the bus is just pulling out of the bus stop as it works a no. 466 bus which is heading to Catherham-on-the-Hill.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_44253\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=44253\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44253\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44253\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2559bus-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2559bus-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2559bus-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2559bus-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2559bus.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-44253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Gareth Prior<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this latest instalment of \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d we are off to South London as we take a look at a tram running on the Tramlink system along with the distinctive sight of a red London bus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44252"}],"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=44252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44254,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44252\/revisions\/44254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}