{"id":46477,"date":"2022-09-26T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46477"},"modified":"2022-09-20T21:03:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T20:03:01","slug":"out-and-about-summerlee-trams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46477","title":{"rendered":"Out and About: Summerlee trams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201cOut and About\u201d we are again in Scotland but instead of our usual look at modern trams in Edinburgh we head along to Summerlee \u2013 the only heritage tramway in the country.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46478\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=46478\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-46478\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46478\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46478\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1.1017-bt-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1.1017-bt-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1.1017-bt-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1.1017-bt-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1.1017-bt.jpg 1282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The chances are if you\u2019ve visited Summerlee you will have seen this diminutive tramcar in service \u2013 Glasgow 1017. Converted for use as a driver training car in its operational life it has been restored as a single decker and has proven to be the stalwart of the operating fleet at Summerlee. Its seen here waiting for passengers.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_46479\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=46479\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-46479\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46479\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46479\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2.53-bt-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2.53-bt-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2.53-bt-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2.53-bt-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2.53-bt.jpg 1282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The other operational Scottish tram at Summerlee is Lanarkshire 53. The open top double decker doesn\u2019t get used as often as 1017 but its always a popular tram when it does. We see it here waiting at the entrance. (Both Photographs by blackpool_trams, 18th June 2022)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201cOut and About\u201d we are again in Scotland but instead of our usual look at modern trams in Edinburgh we head along to Summerlee \u2013 the only heritage tramway in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46477"}],"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=46477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46480,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46477\/revisions\/46480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}