{"id":51207,"date":"2023-09-30T18:03:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T17:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=51207"},"modified":"2023-09-30T18:03:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T17:03:29","slug":"around-the-world-in-trams-riga-57049","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=51207","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in Trams: Riga 57049"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We do back outside of the British Isles for this latest edition of \u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d and we\u2019re still in Riga.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the early years of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century it had been decided that there needed to be a modernisation of the tram system and it was planned that the Tatras would be phased out. As with many grand plans it didn\u2019t quite happen as planned and it wasn\u2019t until 2008 that Skoda were awarded a contract to provide new trams, but some of the Tatras would still be kept in service. The first of the 15T ForCity Alfa Riga trams would enter service in 2010 and one of those is seen in the below photo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>57049<\/strong> is seen carrying an all over advertisement for Xymelin in this photo. What is noticeable is how close to one end the pantograph on the tram is as it runs on route 6 to Jugla.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51208\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=51208\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51208\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51208\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51208\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/57049-dj-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/57049-dj-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/57049-dj-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/57049-dj-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/57049-dj.jpg 1259w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by David Jones, 7th June 2015<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We do back outside of the British Isles for this latest edition of \u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d and we\u2019re still in Riga.<\/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\/51207"}],"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=51207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51209,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51207\/revisions\/51209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}