{"id":22324,"date":"2018-06-09T14:30:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=22324"},"modified":"2018-06-09T10:10:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T09:10:30","slug":"volk%e2%80%99s-electric-railway-6-10-prepared-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=22324","title":{"rendered":"Volk\u2019s Electric Railway 6 &#038; 10 prepared to return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second and third of the three Volk\u2019s Electric Railway cars which were overhauled by Alan Keef Ltd in Ross on Wye are currently being prepared for a return to service with both hoped to be back in use in time for the peak summer season. Nos. <strong>6<\/strong> and <strong>10<\/strong> are now both back in Brighton where work is underway to fully commission them for service.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>6<\/strong> was delivered back to the railway on 14th February 2018 with <strong>10<\/strong> following on 30th April 2018. The former has undergone brief test runs on the line but requires some further mechanical work before it is considered for a full return to service. Meanwhile 10 is also in the workshops where it is having new relays installed in the control boxes.<\/p>\n<p>When both cars are completed and commissioned for service they are expected to run as a pair \u2013 as they did for many years before they had to be withdrawn because of concerns over the condition of the bodywork. The current operational fleet consists of <strong>4<\/strong> \u2013 the first of the cars to be fully overhauled offsite \u2013 <strong>7<\/strong>, <strong>8<\/strong> (which are usually to be seen operating as a pair) and <strong>9<\/strong> (which has seen work in the VER workshops) and once <strong>6<\/strong> and <strong>10<\/strong> return this will bring the fleet up to six cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second and third of the three Volk\u2019s Electric Railway cars which were overhauled by Alan Keef Ltd in Ross on Wye are currently being prepared for a return to service with both hoped to be back in use in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=22324\">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":[53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22324"}],"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=22324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22477,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22324\/revisions\/22477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}