{"id":63703,"date":"2026-07-10T18:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63703"},"modified":"2026-07-05T19:40:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:40:30","slug":"picture-in-time-croydon-tramlink-2538","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63703","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Croydon Tramlink 2538"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d we again head to Croydon as we take a look at one of the trams when it was still operating in the original red and white livery.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And this week we feature <strong>2538<\/strong> in a photo taken at Lloyd Park. Whilst the tram is still in the original fleet livery it has already lost its original roller blinds and is now fitted with the electronic destination displays. Those displays tell us that the tram is working on route 3 to New Addington.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2538<\/strong> was delivered to Croydon on 25<sup>th<\/sup> January 1999 and remains in service today, although there are now plans afoot to replace these original Bombardier trams with a procurement process having been started.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_63704\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2538-gp.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63704\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63704\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-63704 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2538-gp-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2538-gp-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2538-gp-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2538-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-63704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Gareth Prior, 16th October 2006<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d we again head to Croydon as we take a look at one of the trams when it was still operating in the original red and white livery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63703"}],"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=63703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63705,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63703\/revisions\/63705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}