{"id":63463,"date":"2026-06-19T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63463"},"modified":"2026-06-14T08:43:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:43:41","slug":"picture-in-time-manx-electric-railway-26-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63463","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Manx Electric Railway 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is another edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d and it again features a photo of the Manx Electric Railway in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re at Laxey Station for this image as we see <strong>Paddlebox 26<\/strong> and a trailer. There aren\u2019t any passengers on board as it stands on the northbound line so it may possibly have terminated here or be on a tour which is now enjoying a break for photos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>26<\/strong> was built in 1898 as trailer <strong>21<\/strong> and after its number doubled to <strong>42<\/strong> in 1899 it would become a motor in 1903. This is when it received the number <strong>26<\/strong> for the first time and aside from a few special renumberings for enthusiast events has remained as <strong>26<\/strong> ever since.<\/p>\n<p>It would run for the last time in 2009 and since then has flitted between Derby Castle and Laxey Car Sheds for storage. It currently calls Laxey Car Sheds home, as it has since 2024.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_63464\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/26-dm.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63464\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63464\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/26-dm-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/26-dm-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/26-dm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/26-dm.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-63464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by David Mee, 30th July 2004<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d and it again features a photo of the Manx Electric Railway in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63463"}],"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=63463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63465,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63463\/revisions\/63465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}