{"id":59680,"date":"2025-08-15T18:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=59680"},"modified":"2025-08-10T08:30:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:30:48","slug":"picture-in-time-crich-tram-depots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=59680","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Crich Tram Depots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPicture in Time\u201d comes from Crich for one last time before things change again and this time we take a look inside the depots.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is another undated image but shows a number of trams at the front of the depot, and all of them are currently non-runners at the museum. Just visible on the left (partially hidden) is Prague 180 and then alongside that is <strong>Glasgow 1282<\/strong>, then <strong>Blackpool &amp; Fleetwood 2<\/strong> and finally just back from the front is <strong>Glasgow 1297<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Of these trams the Blackpool &amp; Fleetwood Tramroad \u201cRack\u201d car (no. <strong>2<\/strong>) is the one which last operated with passengers at the museum with it being temporarily returned to action during 2018. <strong>Glasgow 1282<\/strong> last ran in 2012, <strong>1297<\/strong> in 2007 and you have to go back to 2001 for the last time that you could have enjoyed a ride on <strong>Prague 180<\/strong>. There are currently no known plans for any to return to action with the two Glasgow cars now in the Great Exhibition Hall.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_59681\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/crichdepot-jm.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59681\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-59681\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/crichdepot-jm-550x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/crichdepot-jm-550x350.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/crichdepot-jm-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/crichdepot-jm-1536x978.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/crichdepot-jm.jpg 1758w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-59681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by John Moore<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPicture in Time\u201d comes from Crich for one last time before things change again and this time we take a look inside the depots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59680"}],"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=59680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59682,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59680\/revisions\/59682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}