{"id":47145,"date":"2022-11-18T18:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=47145"},"modified":"2022-11-18T17:29:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T17:29:38","slug":"picture-in-time-manx-electric-railway-9-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=47145","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Manx Electric Railway 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Isle of Man and the Manx Electric Railway is again the subject of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d as we feature another photo taken on June 1977.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As with last week we are at Derby Castle Sheds although instead of featuring an image inside the actual shed we are looking outside at one of the Tunnel Cars undergoing a thorough cleaning. Its <strong>9<\/strong> that is enjoying a bath, the last of the six Tunnel Cars built in 1894 by G F Milnes (of which just four still exist today following the loss of <strong>4<\/strong> and <strong>8<\/strong> in the Laxey Car Sheds fire in 1930). Today 9 is the illuminated tram having had lights originally attached for the Year of the Railways in 1993 but in 1977 it was just another member of the fleet.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47146\" style=\"width: 374px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=47146\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47146\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47146\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47146\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/9-db-364x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/9-db-364x550.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/9-db-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/9-db-768x1160.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/9-db.jpg 839w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Donald Brooks, 4th June 1977<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Isle of Man and the Manx Electric Railway is again the subject of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d as we feature another photo taken on June 1977.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47145"}],"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=47145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47147,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47145\/revisions\/47147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}