{"id":17656,"date":"2017-06-09T21:14:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T20:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=17656"},"modified":"2017-06-09T21:14:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T20:14:32","slug":"collision-at-halfway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=17656","title":{"rendered":"Collision at Halfway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two trams have been involved in a collision at Halfway on Stagecoach Supertram with both suffering damage in the low speed incident. The two trams involved were <strong>107<\/strong> and <strong>123<\/strong> with the incident taking place on Thursday 8th June.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>107<\/strong> was already situated in the single platform at Halfway at the far end of the line when <strong>123<\/strong> arrived and hit the front of the tram causing both trams to suffer damage to their ends. It is not known why <strong>123<\/strong> failed to stop in time but it is unusual for there to be two trams at the terminus although the platform area is long enough for when this does occur.<\/p>\n<p>Once an investigation was launched both trams were able to return to Nunnery Square Depot under their own power where they will be assessed before it is known what work is required to return them to service. Supertram is already operating at near capacity of their trams \u2013 at least until the City Class trams enter service later this year \u2013 so it is hoped that the damage can be quickly rectified and both <strong>107<\/strong> and <strong>123<\/strong> will be carrying passengers again.<\/p>\n<p>* Photographs of the aftermath of the collision can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/British.Tramway\/\">British Tramway News Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two trams have been involved in a collision at Halfway on Stagecoach Supertram with both suffering damage in the low speed incident. The two trams involved were 107 and 123 with the incident taking place on Thursday 8th June.<\/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\/17656"}],"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=17656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17657,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17656\/revisions\/17657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}