{"id":56440,"date":"2024-12-14T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56440"},"modified":"2024-12-13T18:06:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T18:06:57","slug":"in-pictures-manchester-l53-celebrates-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56440","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Manchester L53 celebrates Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is getting into the festive spirit as Christmas rapidly approaches \u2013 and trams are obviously no different! One tram which has truly gone full out for Christmas is Heaton Park\u2019s <strong>Manchester Eades Reversible Horse Tramcar L53<\/strong> at the Manchester Museum of Transport as we see in this festive photo from Steven Hughes.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56441\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/l53-sh.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56441\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56441\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/l53-sh-550x310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/l53-sh-550x310.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/l53-sh-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/l53-sh.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fairy lights \u2013 tick! Christmas trees \u2013 tick! And of course a Santa hat for the driver of L53 \u2013 tick! L53 on display at the Manchester Museum of Transport ahead of Christmas adding some colour to the scene. The tram remains on loan at the museum having previously been on display at the Bury Museum of Transport. (Photograph by Steven Hughes, 8th December 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is getting into the festive spirit as Christmas rapidly approaches \u2013 and trams are obviously no different! One tram which has truly gone full out for Christmas is Heaton Park\u2019s Manchester Eades Reversible Horse Tramcar L53 at the Manchester &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56440\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56440"}],"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=56440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56442,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56440\/revisions\/56442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}