{"id":46177,"date":"2022-08-26T18:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46177"},"modified":"2022-08-24T22:54:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T21:54:44","slug":"picture-in-time-seaton-tramway-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46177","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Seaton Tramway 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPicture in Time\u201d heads to Devon for the next few weeks as we visit the Seaton Tramway, starting off in 1992.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In this photo we see no. <strong>6<\/strong> at the old, old terminus of the tramway (since replaced by the Edwardian style terminus and more recently the modern enclosed, elevated building) This was a far more simple affair with no shelter for any potential passengers and just a simple old school tramstop sign alerting people to the presence of a tramway in the Harbour Road car park. Alongside the tramway on the other side of the trees is part of the holiday camp \u2013 since swept away by new development with a Tesco superstore and housing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6<\/strong> was originally built in 1954 before its chassis was rebuilt two years later into the number <strong>6<\/strong> we know today. Running at Eastbourne originally it is noticeably smaller than many of the others trams in the fleet (making it a challenge to get upstairs!) and now features an open crossbench lower deck (how it was originally built in 1956 before in 1962 it received small saloons at each end \u2013 it was 1989 that it reverted to this style).<\/p>\n<p>Photo taken 16<sup>th<\/sup> July 1992.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46178\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=46178\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-46178\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46178\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46178\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/6-bh-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/6-bh-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/6-bh-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/6-bh-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/6-bh.jpg 1291w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Bob Hodges<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPicture in Time\u201d heads to Devon for the next few weeks as we visit the Seaton Tramway, starting off in 1992.<\/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\/46177"}],"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=46177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46179,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46177\/revisions\/46179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}