{"id":14289,"date":"2016-04-04T20:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T19:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14289"},"modified":"2016-04-04T20:00:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T19:00:47","slug":"good-news-for-snaefell-mountain-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14289","title":{"rendered":"Good news for Snaefell Mountain Railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the shock news of the terrible accident involving <strong>Snaefell 3 <\/strong>last week, we are pleased to report that the Snaefell Mountain Railway was able to re-open for business on Saturday 2nd April. This followed a closure lasting a few days following the incident to allow the necessary investigations to proceed undisturbed, after car <strong>3 <\/strong>ran away from the summit terminus before derailing and rolling down a slope.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>More surprising but pleasing news is that Ian Longworth, the Director of the Isle of Man&#8217;s railways, has stated that it is planned that car <strong>3 <\/strong>will be rebuilt and returned to service. The parts of the tram have been gathered up and will be used to reconstruct the tram. Whether the &#8216;new&#8217; car <strong>3 <\/strong>will ultimately be viewed as a rebuild or replica remains to be seen, but at least it looks like the SMR will retain its full compliment of trams and can hopefully now look forward to another successful season and put this awful accident behind it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the shock news of the terrible accident involving Snaefell 3 last week, we are pleased to report that the Snaefell Mountain Railway was able to re-open for business on Saturday 2nd April. This followed a closure lasting a few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14289\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14289"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14290,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14289\/revisions\/14290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}