{"id":1804,"date":"2012-09-10T15:46:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T15:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2012-09-10T15:46:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T15:46:39","slug":"mer-19-involved-in-collision-with-bin-lorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=1804","title":{"rendered":"MER 19 involved in collision with bin lorry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Manx Electric Railway Winter Saloons suffered minor damage on Tuesday 4<sup>th<\/sup><br \/>\nSeptember following an incident with a bin lorry in Groudle. The exact circumstances of the incident are not known but what is known is that MER Winter Saloon <strong>19<\/strong> was on a journey from Douglas to Ramsey when it came to hit a bin lorry on the Groudle Road crossing on King Edward Road, Groudle.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A photo on the Isle of Man Today website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iomtoday.co.im\/news\/isle-of-man-news\/manx-electric-railway-tram-in-collision-with-bin-wagon-1-4901009\">http:\/\/www.iomtoday.co.im\/news\/isle-of-man-news\/manx-electric-railway-tram-in-collision-with-bin-wagon-1-4901009<\/a>) shows that the bin lorry came off a lot worse than the tram with a large dent in the front. Almost 80 passengers were on board the tram (which was running with a trailer) but no injuries were reported and they were returned to the Station by bus before the service resumed with the next scheduled departure. <strong>19<\/strong> received no serious damage with just a few paint scratches on the front corner of the tram.<\/p>\n<p>The Isle of Man Police are now conducting an investigation into what caused the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Manx Electric Railway Winter Saloons suffered minor damage on Tuesday 4th September following an incident with a bin lorry in Groudle. The exact circumstances of the incident are not known but what is known is that MER &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=1804\">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":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804"}],"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=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}