{"id":2827,"date":"2013-01-19T19:08:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T19:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2013-01-19T19:08:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T19:08:06","slug":"mer-helps-to-save-the-day-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=2827","title":{"rendered":"MER helps to save the day again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first passenger runs of the Manx Electric Railway in 2013, and the first services in\u00a0 January since 2004, occurred on the afternoon of Thursday 17<sup>th<\/sup> January when a service was operated to cover the second bus strike on the Isle of Man. Five journeys were operated in each direction between Douglas and Ramsey with four different motors and three trailers used.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The timetable which was operated on this occasion was very much tailored towards the schools along the line to ensure that students having to take important exams could both get to and from their schools.<\/p>\n<p>Tunnel Cars <strong>5<\/strong> and <strong>6<\/strong> along with Winter Saloons <strong>19<\/strong> and <strong>20<\/strong> were utilised on the services with trailers <strong>57<\/strong>, <strong>58<\/strong> and <strong>59<\/strong> being used on selected services to ensure there was enough capacity. <strong>5<\/strong> ran solo on both its journeys with <strong>6<\/strong> being paired with <strong>57 <\/strong>on the 1540 Douglas-Ramsey (it also operated the 1410 Ramsey-Douglas but this was sans the trailer) whilst <strong>19<\/strong><br \/>\noperated with <strong>58<\/strong> on both its journeys and <strong>20<\/strong> ran with <strong>59<\/strong> on all of its scheduled journeys.<\/p>\n<p>For the second time in a month the Manx Electric Railway has shown that despite rapidly approaching its 120<sup>th <\/sup>birthday it can still provide a valuable service for the residents of the Isle of Man when other transport lets them down. No further strikes have yet been announced by the bus drivers but it is thought it is likely there will be some as negotiations between the two parties seem to have broken down so the MER may be called to save the day again soon!<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manxelectricrailway.co.uk\">www.manxelectricrailway.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0for information in this article<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first passenger runs of the Manx Electric Railway in 2013, and the first services in\u00a0 January since 2004, occurred on the afternoon of Thursday 17th January when a service was operated to cover the second bus strike on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=2827\">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\/2827"}],"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=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2828,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions\/2828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}