{"id":46672,"date":"2022-10-08T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46672"},"modified":"2022-10-08T17:00:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T16:00:33","slug":"around-the-world-in-trams-geneva-manual-points-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46672","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in Trams: Geneva manual points change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There isn\u2019t a tram to be seen in today\u2019s \u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d (well a bit of one but that\u2019s not the focus of our attention) as we return to Geneva one last time for this current batch of photos.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes not all tramway equipment works as it should which requires a little bit of manual intervention from tram crews or engineers. And that was the case on 26<sup>th<\/sup> April 2018 in Geneva when the points at the junction of the routes to CERN and Meyrin Graviere were not working. This meant that every tram had to come to a stop with the driver then having to use a manual points bar to change the points in the direction they wished to go.<\/p>\n<p>In this shot we see a driver doing just that. The very front of his tram can just be seen on the extreme right of this photo.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46673\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=46673\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-46673\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46673\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46673\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/points-ts-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/points-ts-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/points-ts-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/points-ts-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/points-ts.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Tony Sullivan, 26th April 2018<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There isn\u2019t a tram to be seen in today\u2019s \u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d (well a bit of one but that\u2019s not the focus of our attention) as we return to Geneva one last time for this current batch of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46672\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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\/46672"}],"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=46672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46674,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46672\/revisions\/46674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}