{"id":58157,"date":"2025-04-25T18:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58157"},"modified":"2025-04-20T08:43:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T07:43:22","slug":"picture-in-time-snaefell-mountain-railway-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58157","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Snaefell Mountain Railway 6 &#038; 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPicture in Time\u201d remains on the Isle of Man but we go up to the summit of Snaefell for this edition.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Countless images of the summit terminus of the Snaefell Mountain Railway have probably been taken over the years and we feature another one in this image. On this occasion, a third of the passenger fleet was to be found adjacent to the Summit Hotel with <strong>2<\/strong> behind <strong>6<\/strong> as they wait for passengers and then a trip back down to Laxey with one stop on the way at Bungalow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6<\/strong> would be the first car to depart for the descent, something which it hasn\u2019t actually done since 2017 when it was withdrawn for an overhaul. A new body has been built for the tram and its made good progress over the past couple of years in preparation for it to return to service. <strong>2<\/strong>, also seen in this photo, remains operational.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58158\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/62-dm.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58158\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58158\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/62-dm-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/62-dm-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/62-dm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/62-dm.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-58158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by David Mee, 1st August 2002<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPicture in Time\u201d remains on the Isle of Man but we go up to the summit of Snaefell for this edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58157"}],"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=58157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58159,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58157\/revisions\/58159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}