{"id":21262,"date":"2018-03-21T21:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T21:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=21262"},"modified":"2018-03-21T18:11:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T18:11:05","slug":"in-pictures-preparations-underway-for-a-new-season-at-carlton-colville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=21262","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Preparations underway for a new season at Carlton Colville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The East Anglia Transport Museum in Carlton Colville will open again for its new season on Thursday 29th March and in preparation earlier this month there was a small shunt of trams.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Once again in 2018 on the tram front the bulk of service is likely to once again be in the hands of <strong>Blackpool 159<\/strong> and <strong>London Transport 1858<\/strong> with support for the rest of the fleet as and when required. Work on <strong>Glasgow 488<\/strong> at the Ffestiniog Railway continues whilst <strong>Lowestoft 14<\/strong> also remains under restoration at Carlton Colville. The other trams making up the home fleet are of course <strong>Amsterdam 474<\/strong>, <strong>Blackpool Marton VAMBAC 11<\/strong> and <strong>Sheffield 513<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21263\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=21263\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21263\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21263\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21263\" title=\"159+474-bg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/159+474-bg-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/159+474-bg-550x309.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/159+474-bg-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/159+474-bg.jpg 1273w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this view we see Blackpool 159 and Amsterdam 474 outside the depot on 9th March. (Photograph by Bryan Grint)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The East Anglia Transport Museum in Carlton Colville will open again for its new season on Thursday 29th March and in preparation earlier this month there was a small shunt of trams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21262"}],"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=21262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21269,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21262\/revisions\/21269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}