{"id":54441,"date":"2024-07-12T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54441"},"modified":"2024-07-07T08:24:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T07:24:18","slug":"picture-in-time-croydon-tramlink-2541-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54441","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Croydon Tramlink 2541"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We go back into the archives again as we have another edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d from Croydon Tramlink.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We look at CR4000 <strong>2541<\/strong> here as it is seen at Arena with a service which is running to West Croydon. At this time all services from both Elmers End and Beckenham Junction would work into central Croydon and then around the loop in the town centre before heading back in this direction (a change to today when Wimbledon is their destination).<\/p>\n<p><strong>2541<\/strong> was delivered to Croydon on 18<sup>th<\/sup> February 1999. As seen here it was carrying advertising both above and below windows; those below were promoting the fact that Transport for London were now running Tramlink (although Tram Operations Limited retained the concession as operator).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54442\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2541-cab.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54442\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54442\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2541-cab-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2541-cab-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2541-cab-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2541-cab.jpg 1283w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Chris Allsop-Buckler, 9th August 2008<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We go back into the archives again as we have another edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d from Croydon Tramlink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54441"}],"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=54441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54443,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54441\/revisions\/54443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}