TRAM: British and Australian (American usually streetcar also trolley) noun [C] An electric vehicle that transports people, usually in cities, and goes along metal tracks in the road. (Taken from the Cambridge English Dictionary)
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BLACKPOOL STANDARD 143 RESTORATION UPDATE
Lancastrian Transport Trust – Sunday 22nd July 2007
The restoration of Blackpool Engineering 753 back into Standard 143 is continuing at the Lancastrian Transport Trust’s Mereside depot, as well as across the country.
The tram’s underframe has now returned to Blackpool and plans are now underway to lift the body and extract the trucks so the body can be rejoined to the underframe. The body frame repairs would then be able to commence. The new roof sticks have arrived and are ready for fitting having been replicated from samples of the originals.
Meanwhile, work has been undertaken at the Ffestiniog Railway, where their expert skills are being used to construct new canopy ends. They have also managed to restore three of the four bulkhead doors but the fourth was too badly burnt by the fire which caused the tram to retired from active service.
The top deck is complete in kit form and is stored awaiting assembly once the bottom deck is ready for it. The reversible seats for upstairs have been dismantled and the frames are being derusted and primed.
* In order to ensure that 143 and other trams like it from the Blackpool Tramway return to the rails the Lancastrian Transport Trust need your money through the Blackpool Tramcar Preservation Fund. Full details of why you should donate and what the money will be used for is available here.
