{"id":25182,"date":"2018-12-19T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=25182"},"modified":"2018-12-16T12:37:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T12:37:40","slug":"september-review-%e2%80%93-isle-of-man-no-19-%e2%80%93-tunnel-cars-in-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=25182","title":{"rendered":"September Review \u2013 Isle of Man: No.19 \u2013 Tunnel Cars in service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often used on the main service in addition to the Winter Saloons there remain four Tunnel Cars available for service and they are all in regular operation today on the Manx Electric Railway.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25183\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=25183\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25183\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25183\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25183\" title=\"1.9+40-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1.9+40-gp-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1.9+40-gp-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1.9+40-gp-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1.9+40-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">9 \u2013 the highest numbered of the remaining Tunnel Cars \u2013 is also the illuminated motor on the Manx Electric Railway. However, in this view it is still very much daylight so there is no need for its lights to be on \u2013 although they can be spotted in this photo \u2013 as it heads back to Derby Castle with trailer 40 for company on 5th September.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_25184\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=25184\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25184\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25184\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25184\" title=\"2.7+48-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2.7+48-gp-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2.7+48-gp-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2.7+48-gp-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2.7+48-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ever since its last major overhaul and repaint into the Blue and Ivory livery of the Douglas &amp; Laxey Electric Tramway Tunnel Car 7 has become a celebrity in its own right making a pleasant change in a sea of red liveried trams on the MER. With matching trailer 48 in tow the trams are seen here approaching Port Jack on 5th September.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_25185\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=25185\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25185\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25185\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25185\" title=\"3.5+42+8-gp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/3.5+42+8-gp-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/3.5+42+8-gp-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/3.5+42+8-gp-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/3.5+42+8-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">5 is captured on camera in this image on the final southern approach to Laxey Station. This is anniversary day itself \u2013 7th September \u2013 and so it not only has trailer 42 behind but also Wagon 8. (All Photographs by Gareth Prior)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often used on the main service in addition to the Winter Saloons there remain four Tunnel Cars available for service and they are all in regular operation today on the Manx Electric Railway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,71],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25182"}],"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=25182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25187,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25182\/revisions\/25187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}