{"id":58095,"date":"2025-04-19T18:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T17:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58095"},"modified":"2025-04-13T09:23:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T08:23:52","slug":"around-the-world-in-trams-riga-30743","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58095","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in Trams: Riga 30743"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We go \u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d again with another photo taken in Riga, Latvia.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Once again the tram seen in the below photo is a Tatra T3A with this particular example being numbered <strong>30743<\/strong>. Built in 1987, it was originally designated as a T3SU before in 2002 after modernisation work it became a T3A. The tram has been through several different numbers over the years as well \u2013 <strong>5-1191<\/strong>, <strong>4-2191<\/strong>, <strong>40740<\/strong> and finally <strong>30743<\/strong> in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>This rural setting shows the tram in the standard Riga fleet livery as it rounds the curve with a working on route 2.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58096\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/30743-df.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58096\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58096\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/30743-df-550x439.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/30743-df-550x439.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/30743-df-768x613.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/30743-df.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-58096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by David Fowler, July 2014<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We go \u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d again with another photo taken in Riga, Latvia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58095"}],"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=58095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58097,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58095\/revisions\/58097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}