{"id":579,"date":"2012-04-04T17:13:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T17:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=579"},"modified":"2012-04-04T17:13:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T17:13:12","slug":"variotram-2554-continues-test-passenger-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"Variotram 2554 continues test passenger runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a visit to Croydon on Wednesday 4<sup>th<\/sup> April Variotram <strong>2554 <\/strong>was noticed running in passenger service between Wimbledon and East Croydon. The tram is believed to have run these test passenger runs for at least four weekdays now but as yet is not permitted to run any further east with passengers on board. On one journey on this day the tram terminated from Wimbledon on the centre platform at East Croydon before eventually departing eastbound (presumably on the New Addington branch) \u201cNot in Service\u201d. The other two Variotrams delivered so far were stabled at Therapia Lane Depot.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_580\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=580\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-580\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-580\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-580\" title=\"news2554+friends\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/news2554+friends-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/news2554+friends-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/news2554+friends-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/news2554+friends.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A full house at East Croydon on 4th April 2012 with 2554 seen in the middle having recently arrived in service from Wimbledon, shortly after this photo was taken it disappeared out of service eastbound. Making up the numbers in this shot are 2550 and 2542. (Photo: Gareth Prior)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a visit to Croydon on Wednesday 4th April Variotram 2554 was noticed running in passenger service between Wimbledon and East Croydon. The tram is believed to have run these test passenger runs for at least four weekdays now but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=579\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579"}],"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=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}