{"id":60202,"date":"2025-09-20T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60202"},"modified":"2025-09-20T09:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T08:06:18","slug":"around-the-world-in-trams-rhein-neckar-638-615","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60202","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in Trams: Rhein-Neckar 638 &#038; 615"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back to Mannheim we go with another photo in \u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s a double helping of trams in this photo as we see two Duewag 6MGT trams pass when working on route 7.<\/p>\n<p>On the right is <strong>638<\/strong> which was built in 1995 and has since been renumbered as <strong>5638<\/strong> (a renumbering which took place in 2009) and on the left we can see <strong>615<\/strong> which was also built 1995 and now carries the number <strong>5615<\/strong>. Both trams remain operational in 2025.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60203\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/638615-np.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60203\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60203\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/638615-np-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/638615-np-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/638615-np-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/638615-np.jpg 1228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Nigel Pennick, 2003<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to Mannheim we go with another photo in \u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d.<\/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\/60202"}],"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=60202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60204,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60202\/revisions\/60204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}