{"id":64445,"date":"2026-09-06T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64445"},"modified":"2026-09-06T08:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:42:12","slug":"london-trams-delays-after-road-vehicle-hits-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64445","title":{"rendered":"London Trams delays after road vehicle hits bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London Trams services to and from Beckenham Junction were delayed on Tuesday 1<sup>st<\/sup> September 2026 after a road vehicle hit a bridge requiring a safety inspection of the structure ahead of trams being allowed to travel over it again.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The bridge which was hit was at Birkbeck and as a result no trams ran between Avenue Road and Harrington Road on the single line section of tramway that leads to and from Beckenham Junction.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge strike was first reported just after 1500 with trams able to start running again not long after 1630.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London Trams services to and from Beckenham Junction were delayed on Tuesday 1st September 2026 after a road vehicle hit a bridge requiring a safety inspection of the structure ahead of trams being allowed to travel over it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64445"}],"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=64445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64446,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64445\/revisions\/64446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}