{"id":2267,"date":"2012-11-09T12:33:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T12:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2012-11-09T12:33:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T12:33:53","slug":"lisbon-730-to-visit-beamish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=2267","title":{"rendered":"Lisbon 730 to visit Beamish?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society have announced that plans afoot for <strong>Lisbon 730<\/strong> to make the journey to Beamish Museum for a visit during spring 2013. Although no dates have been revealed, this will presumably coincide with a major event to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Beamish tramway, which will hopefully feature a number of visiting trams from various different locations around the country.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Of course, <strong>Lisbon 730<\/strong> is no stranger to making long journeys by road. The tram has certainly had an interesting time since being shipped to the UK; at one time it was destined for use at the Seaton Tramway, with suggested uses including a mobile gift shop and a works trailer. Ultimately these plans came to nothing and after a period of outside storage at Colyton Station, it moved to East Anglia for a while before heading to Birkenhead. There it was soon restored to the MTPS&#8217; usual extremely high standard, making it the only Lisbon tramcar in the world to have been regauged to British standard,\u00a0and it entered\u00a0service there in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>If the proposed loan of<strong> 730<\/strong> goes ahead, it will become the second MTPS-owned tram to operate at Beamish, following on from <strong>Birkenhead 20<\/strong>&#8216;s visit earlier this year. Car <strong>20<\/strong> did sustain some damage in transit but this shouldn&#8217;t be a problem for the smaller single-deck tram, making it a good choice to send to Beamish. The loan should also hopefully give some opportunites to see and photograph <strong>730<\/strong> alongside another Portuguese tram, <strong>Oporto 196<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Beamish Tramway 40th anniversary event already looks set to be the most exciting event of 2013 for tram enthusiasts, and hopefully the news regarding <strong>Lisbon 730<\/strong> will set the scene for further announcements regarding likely visiting trams. The event is due to take place over a four day period from Thursday 4th to Sunday 7th April and as well as plenty of expected activity on the tramway itself, will also feature a model tramway exhibition on 6th &amp; 7th April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society have announced that plans afoot for Lisbon 730 to make the journey to Beamish Museum for a visit during spring 2013. Although no dates have been revealed, this will presumably coincide with a major event &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=2267\">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":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267"}],"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=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}