{"id":44397,"date":"2022-04-01T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=44397"},"modified":"2022-03-26T16:26:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T16:26:02","slug":"picture-in-time-seaton-tramway-12-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=44397","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Seaton Tramway 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We take another trip to the Seaton Tramway on 28<sup>th<\/sup> August 1995 for this instalment of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Pictured in this article is the middle incarnation for no. <strong>12<\/strong> \u2013 the most heavily rebuilt tram in the Seaton Tramway fleet. Starting off life in 1966 as a single deck saloon car it had been rebuilt as a double deck open topper in 1980 and it is this style that we see the tram in this view. Featuring a green and off white livery, despite the fact it didn\u2019t have the streamlined shape at first glance it could easily be confused with a Blackpool Open Top Balloon and would remain in this condition until 1999 when it became the world\u2019s first \u2013 and only! \u2013 open top Feltham car.<\/p>\n<p>This photo shows <strong>12<\/strong> having just departed from the loading stop at Colyton and now running along the length of the platform at this former railway station.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_44398\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=44398\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44398\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44398\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44398\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/12-bh-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/12-bh-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/12-bh-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/12-bh-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/12-bh.jpg 1285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-44398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Bob Hodges<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We take another trip to the Seaton Tramway on 28th August 1995 for this instalment of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44397"}],"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=44397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44399,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44397\/revisions\/44399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}