{"id":53139,"date":"2024-03-24T17:00:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53139"},"modified":"2024-03-24T10:18:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T10:18:03","slug":"stop-by-stop-london-trams-beckenham-junction-elmers-end-lines-woodside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53139","title":{"rendered":"Stop by Stop London Trams: Beckenham Junction &#038; Elmers End lines \u2013 Woodside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After our little sojourn last week where we headed back to Elmers End we\u2019re back on our way towards central Croydon in this edition of \u201cStop by Stop\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We leave Arena and carry on with a double track tramway. We\u2019re on the alignment of the Woodside and South Croydon Railway and shortly before reaching the next stop we go under Spring Lane which includes the former railway station buildings of Woodside \u2013 although they\u2019re not used for the tramway. Woodside tramstop is located on the site of the former railway station and has platforms either side of the tracks. With it being lower than street level access is via ramps and stairs.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53140\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=53140\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53140\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53140\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53140\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/8a.2561-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/8a.2561-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/8a.2561-gp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/8a.2561-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/8a.2561-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2561 is just leaving Woodside here heading to Elmers End. It will soon head under Spring Lane with the building seen over the tracks being the former station building when the railway still ruled the roost here.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_53141\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=53141\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53141\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53141\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53141\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/8b.2530-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/8b.2530-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/8b.2530-gp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/8b.2530-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/8b.2530-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then it\u2019s the turn of the lowest numbered tram in the fleet \u2013 2530. Its arriving at the stop as it works a service to Wimbledon. (Both Photographs by Gareth Prior, 21st September 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After our little sojourn last week where we headed back to Elmers End we\u2019re back on our way towards central Croydon in this edition of \u201cStop by Stop\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,92],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53139"}],"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=53139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53142,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53139\/revisions\/53142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}