{"id":63786,"date":"2026-07-17T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63786"},"modified":"2026-07-11T16:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T15:48:11","slug":"picture-in-time-croydon-tramlink-2543","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63786","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Croydon Tramlink 2543"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have another edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d for you this evening and we again take a look at a red and white tram running on Croydon Tramlink.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We have moved to Sandilands for this photo and its 12<sup>th<\/sup> March 2008 that this image of <strong>2543<\/strong> was captured. At this time all of the trams were still in this livery although from the October of this year we would start to see the now very familiar (its been on the trams longer than red and white by a long way now) green\/white\/blue livery added to the fleet of CR4000 trams.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2543<\/strong> has been in Croydon since 1<sup>st<\/sup> March 1999.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_63787\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2543-gp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63787\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63787\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2543-gp-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2543-gp-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2543-gp-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2543-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-63787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Gareth Prior, 12th March 2008<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have another edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d for you this evening and we again take a look at a red and white tram running on Croydon Tramlink.<\/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\/63786"}],"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=63786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63788,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63786\/revisions\/63788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}