{"id":62043,"date":"2026-02-28T18:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=62043"},"modified":"2026-02-22T08:42:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T08:42:51","slug":"around-the-world-in-trams-istanbul-701","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=62043","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in Trams: Istanbul 701"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its one final photo from Istanbul as \u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d continues.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>istanbul B\u00fcy\u00fck\u015fehir Belediyesi\u2019nin (IBB) <strong>701<\/strong> and another similar car train at the Sultanahmet Istasyonu platform.\u00a0 This car is heading towards Cemberlitas. This is one of fifty-five Bombardier Flexity Swift low floor tram vehicles ordered for the T1 line in 2001. They went into service in 2004 after the platforms on this 1992 built tramline were rebuilt for low floor cars.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62044\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/701-ek.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62044\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62044\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/701-ek-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/701-ek-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/701-ek-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/701-ek.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Edward M. Koehler, 13th September 2025<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its one final photo from Istanbul as \u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d continues.<\/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\/62043"}],"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=62043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62045,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62043\/revisions\/62045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}