{"id":63859,"date":"2026-07-25T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63859"},"modified":"2026-07-19T20:47:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:47:55","slug":"around-the-world-in-trams-mattapan-line-3262","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63859","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in Trams: Mattapan Line 3262"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the last edition of \u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d which features a photo from the Mattapan Line operated by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And in the below photo we see one of the PCCs which once ran the service on the 2.6 mile long Mattapan Line in store in the sidings at Mattapan. As can be clearly seen in this photos, <strong>3262<\/strong> was involved in a collision on 29th December 2017 which saw it receive significant damage.<\/p>\n<p>According to an investigation which took place after the collision \u2013 which involved two PCCs \u2013 it was said that it was due to operator error with the driver later being charged. 17 passengers suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3262<\/strong> remains stored and as seen here was visible from public areas.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_63860\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3262-ib.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63860\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63860\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3262-ib-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3262-ib-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3262-ib-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3262-ib.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-63860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Ian Buck, 27th May 2025<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the last edition of \u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d which features a photo from the Mattapan Line operated by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.<\/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\/63859"}],"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=63859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63861,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63859\/revisions\/63861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}