{"id":52754,"date":"2024-02-24T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=52754"},"modified":"2024-02-18T08:41:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T08:41:25","slug":"around-the-world-in-trams-bendigo-918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=52754","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in Trams: Bendigo 918"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last time we go to Bendigo in \u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This time out we feature the newest of the trams we\u2019ve taken a look at from Bendigo \u2013 1946 built SW6 class no. <strong>918<\/strong>. Originally operating in Melbourne, 918 remained serviceable until the late 1990s when it became part of Melbourne\u2019s reserve fleet and then in March 2005 it moved to Bendigo to take up its role as a Vintage Talking Tram. During 2017 it became the Dja Dja Wurrung Tram and now shares the traditions of Bendigo\u2019s first people.<\/p>\n<p>Its as the Dja Dja Wurrung Tram that we see <strong>918<\/strong> in this photo as it stands on display at the Deborah Mine terminus.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_52755\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=52755\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52755\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52755\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52755\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/918-dm-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/918-dm-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/918-dm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/918-dm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/918-dm.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-52755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by David Maxwell, 12th February 2020<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last time we go to Bendigo in \u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d.<\/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\/52754"}],"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=52754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52756,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52754\/revisions\/52756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}