{"id":60932,"date":"2025-11-21T18:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60932"},"modified":"2025-11-16T09:07:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T09:07:34","slug":"picture-in-time-sunderland-16-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60932","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Sunderland 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPicture in Time\u201d today stays at Beamish but for the first time in this latest series of photo we change trams!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The tram we take a look at this time is <strong>Sunderland 16<\/strong> \u2013 an incredibly useful all weather, high capacity tram which also fits nicely in with the local area. Whilst we are now well used to seeing <strong>16<\/strong> in service at Beamish it wasn\u2019t until 1989 that the body was rescued and then after a major restoration it entered service at Beamish in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Five years later and we see the tram in operation as it pauses at the Entrance with a clockwise working around the tramway circuit. It\u2019s a very wet day \u2013 showing just how useful the tram is on days like that! \u2013 and a few more potential passengers are seen just walking down the ramp towards the tram.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60933\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/16-kj.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60933\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60933\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/16-kj-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/16-kj-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/16-kj-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/16-kj.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60933\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Ken Jones, 18th August 2008<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPicture in Time\u201d today stays at Beamish but for the first time in this latest series of photo we change trams!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60932"}],"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=60932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60934,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60932\/revisions\/60934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}