{"id":64728,"date":"2026-09-20T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64728"},"modified":"2026-09-20T10:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T09:20:31","slug":"theyve-run-in-2026-meet-the-trams-great-orme-tramway-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64728","title":{"rendered":"They\u2019ve Run in 2026 \u2013 Meet the Trams: Great Orme Tramway \u2013 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And just like that we reach the end of the fleet on the Great Orme Tramway as in this edition of \u201cMeet the Trams\u201d we take a look at no. <strong>7<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What can be added about <strong>7<\/strong> which hasn\u2019t already been written about <strong>6<\/strong>?! Not a lot! It was used for the first time on 8<sup>th<\/sup> July 1903 when the upper section of the tramway opened to the public and with it being connected to 6 its history follows the same path.<\/p>\n<p>That includes being involved in the same two collisions (on the account that if it\u2019s a tram v tram collision and there are only two trams on your section there\u2019s only two vehicles which can be involved!) in April 2000 and September 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7<\/strong> carries the name St Trillo, a patron saint and founder of churches at Llandrillo, Denbighshire and Llandrillo yn Rhos. He lived in the 6<sup>th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_64729\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7-bt.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64729\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64729\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7-bt-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7-bt-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7-bt-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7-bt.jpg 1259w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-64729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With the spectacular views afforded from the Great Orme Tramway visible beyond here we see 7 descending from the Summit. (Photograph by blackpool_trams, 4th July 2026)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And just like that we reach the end of the fleet on the Great Orme Tramway as in this edition of \u201cMeet the Trams\u201d we take a look at no. 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,121,120],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64728"}],"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=64728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64730,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64728\/revisions\/64730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}