{"id":50026,"date":"2024-08-26T22:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T21:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50026"},"modified":"2024-08-21T21:43:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T20:43:04","slug":"in-pictures-bristol-tramway-horse-tram-at-bristol-aerospace-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50026","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Bristol Tramway Horse Tram at Bristol Aerospace Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Aerospace Museum is probably the last place you would expect to find an old horse tram but that is exactly where the sole surviving Bristol Tramways horse can be found with in a partially restored condition.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Bristol Tramways system was operated by a private company throughout its over 65 year history and whilst it ended in 1941 with a network of electric tram routes, in 1875 when it opened it was operated by a fleet of horse trams. The first horse tram route started running on 9<sup>th<\/sup> August 1875 and ran for around 1.5 miles from Perry Road to Blackboy Hill, Redland. The network expanded over the years and its horse tram years saw it reach 9.1 miles with extensions opening in 1876, 1879, 1880 and 1892. It wasn\u2019t solely horse trams though as there were experiments with steam power. Electrification started in 1895 with the final routes closing in 1941 after bomb damage during the Second World War.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50027\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=50027\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50027\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50027\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50027\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1.bristol-jm-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1.bristol-jm-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1.bristol-jm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1.bristol-jm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1.bristol-jm.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The horse tram at the Bristol Aerospace Museum is not identified and is a half and half restoration with one side being fully cosmetically restored and the other is as found condition. This is the side that has been restored in the Bristol blue and white livery. Note that the tram does not stand on a truck and that unlike in many museums across the land there is no fake horse for company!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_50028\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=50028\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50028\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50028\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50028\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2.bristol-jm-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2.bristol-jm-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2.bristol-jm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2.bristol-jm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2.bristol-jm.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And this is the unrestored side. The tram was constructed by Milnes in the 1890s. (Both Photographs by John Moore, 12th June 2023)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Aerospace Museum is probably the last place you would expect to find an old horse tram but that is exactly where the sole surviving Bristol Tramways horse can be found with in a partially restored condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50026"}],"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=50026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50029,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50026\/revisions\/50029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}