{"id":58249,"date":"2025-05-02T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58249"},"modified":"2025-04-27T09:00:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T08:00:37","slug":"picture-in-time-manx-electric-railway-26-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58249","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Manx Electric Railway 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is another edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d as we feature a tram in action on the Isle of Man.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Having been in 2002 for the past few weeks we now move forward a couple of years to 2004 for an image of another motor which is no longer part of the operational fleet. That is <strong>26<\/strong>, a Paddlebox Open built in 1898 originally as a trailer. It was motorised in 1903 and has remained like that ever since. It would be stored in 2009 and since then has been moved several times \u2013 starting off at Laxey Car Sheds it then went to Derby Castle and then returned back to Laxey in 2024!<\/p>\n<p>This photo was taken on 30<sup>th<\/sup> July 2004 and shows <strong>26<\/strong> with an unidentified trailer just as it starts the shunt to the sidings.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58250\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/26-dm.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58250\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58250\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/26-dm-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/26-dm-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/26-dm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/26-dm.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-58250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by David Mee, 30th July 2004<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d as we feature a tram in action on the Isle of Man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58249"}],"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=58249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58251,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58249\/revisions\/58251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}