{"id":62404,"date":"2026-03-28T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=62404"},"modified":"2026-03-28T17:42:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:42:53","slug":"around-the-world-in-trams-amsterdam-snowbroom-sv1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=62404","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in Trams: Amsterdam Snowbroom SV1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have one final photo from Amsterdam in this latest batch of \u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d images.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This photo was taken around 1981 and shows historic <strong>Amsterdam Snowbroom SV1<\/strong> running along the tracks in the centre of Amsterdam. In its dull works grey livery the tramcar is making an unusual appearance when there was no snow for it to sweep! It could be that it was out for a special occasion, the internet suggests September 1981 saw it used to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the GVB-workers musical orchestra, so that could be linked.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SV1<\/strong> was built in 1905 as a purpose built snowbroom. It remained operational until 1991 at which point it was withdrawn and preserved.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62405\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/sv1-kc.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62405\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62405\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/sv1-kc-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/sv1-kc-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/sv1-kc-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/sv1-kc.jpg 1285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Keith Chadbourne, 1981<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have one final photo from Amsterdam in this latest batch of \u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d images.<\/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\/62404"}],"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=62404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62406,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62404\/revisions\/62406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}