{"id":54550,"date":"2024-07-19T18:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54550"},"modified":"2024-07-14T08:30:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T07:30:57","slug":"picture-in-time-croydon-tramlink-2553-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54550","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Croydon Tramlink 2553"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d we take a look at another tram operating on the Croydon Tramlink network.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>2553<\/strong> is the last built of the 24 CR4000s which were originally constructed for the opening of the Croydon Tramlink network. It would also be the very last of the trams to arrive in South London from Austria when it was delivered to Therapia Lane Depot on 7<sup>th<\/sup> June 1999.<\/p>\n<p>In this photo we see that, as with last weeks image, it carries advertising promoting the TfL takeover as well as further commercial adverts above the windows. Its just departing from Arena with a line 2 service from Beckenham Junction to West Croydon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54551\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2553-cab.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54551\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54551\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2553-cab-550x382.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2553-cab-550x382.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2553-cab-768x533.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2553-cab.jpg 1294w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Chris Allsop-Buckler, 9th August 2008<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d we take a look at another tram operating on the Croydon Tramlink network.<\/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\/54550"}],"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=54550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54552,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54550\/revisions\/54552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}