{"id":7957,"date":"2014-06-15T19:17:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T18:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=7957"},"modified":"2014-06-15T19:17:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T18:17:03","slug":"nottingham-express-transit-209-the-milk-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=7957","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Express Transit 209 &#038; The Milk Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember a few weeks ago that Nottingham Express Transit\u2019s 209 carried an advert for The Milk Race, a major cycling race taking place in Nottingham City Centre during May. Whether by accident or design <strong>209<\/strong> is named Sydney Standard who ran a cycle shop in Chilwell Road, Beeston and was President of the Beeston Road Club so it was rather apt that the adverts were carried on this tram. And to add further to the tram connection tram works have recently been taking place outside his shop ahead of the opening of Phase Two, as shown in the photo below.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7958\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=7958\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7958\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7958\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7958\" title=\"DSCF0128 (Bob Gell)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSCF0128-Bob-Gell-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSCF0128-Bob-Gell-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSCF0128-Bob-Gell-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSCF0128-Bob-Gell.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Track works taking place in front of Sydney Standard&#39;s old cycle shop. (Photo: Bob Gell)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember a few weeks ago that Nottingham Express Transit\u2019s 209 carried an advert for The Milk Race, a major cycling race taking place in Nottingham City Centre during May. Whether by accident or design 209 is named Sydney &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=7957\">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":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957"}],"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=7957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7962,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957\/revisions\/7962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}