{"id":61853,"date":"2026-02-14T18:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61853"},"modified":"2026-02-08T08:59:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:59:04","slug":"around-the-world-in-trams-istanbul-806","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61853","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in Trams: Istanbul 806"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d time again and we\u2019re in Istanbul again.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The below photo shows \u0130stanbul B\u00fcy\u00fck\u015fehir Belediyesi\u2019nin (IBB) <strong>806<\/strong> on the curve in Devan Yolo Caddesi. in the vicinity of the intersection with Yerebatan Cadde.\u00a0 This is a T1 line service and the car is well filled with riders.\u00a0 Based on the red paint scheme, this is one of the thirty-seven low floor Alstom Citadis model 304 trams that were ordered in 2007 and put into service during 2011; the acquisition of these cars was used to complete the merger of lines T1 and T2, with T1 being the surviving designation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61854\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/806-ek.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61854\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61854\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/806-ek-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/806-ek-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/806-ek-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/806-ek.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Edward M. Koehler, 12th September 2025<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d time again and we\u2019re in Istanbul again.<\/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\/61853"}],"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=61853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61855,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61853\/revisions\/61855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}