{"id":7540,"date":"2014-05-10T14:18:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T13:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=7540"},"modified":"2014-05-10T14:18:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T13:18:06","slug":"enter-stanley-the-supertram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=7540","title":{"rendered":"Enter Stanley the Supertram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Stagecoach Supertram\u2019 s trams has been immortalised in cartoon form in a new book written to mark the 60th anniversary of Stagecoach\u2019s co-founder and Chairman Sir Brian Souter. Stanley the Supertram is one of a number of Stagecoach vehicles to feature in \u201cA Very Special Family Party\u201d written by Stagecoach employee Lindsay Reid.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Other characters to feature in the book are Bobby Bus and Molly megabus.com alongside Eric the East Midlands Trains train.<\/p>\n<p>The book, which features illustrations by Alison MacKenzie and Kate West, is available now costing \u00a34 for a paperback copy from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\">http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk<\/a>. At least \u00a31.50 from the sale of each book will be donated to the National Literacy Trust which works to improve the reading, writing, speaking and listening skills in the UK\u2019s most disadvantaged communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Stagecoach Supertram\u2019 s trams has been immortalised in cartoon form in a new book written to mark the 60th anniversary of Stagecoach\u2019s co-founder and Chairman Sir Brian Souter. Stanley the Supertram is one of a number of Stagecoach &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=7540\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7540"}],"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=7540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7541,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7540\/revisions\/7541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}