{"id":29487,"date":"2019-08-24T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=29487"},"modified":"2019-08-21T20:52:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T19:52:04","slug":"in-pictures-box-40%e2%80%99s-time-drawing-to-an-end-at-beamish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=29487","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Box 40\u2019s time drawing to an end at Beamish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its time in the northeast seems to have flown by but in a little over a week <strong>Blackpool &amp; Fleetwood Box 40<\/strong> will have run for the very last time at Beamish with the plan being that it will operate over the weekend of Saturday 31st August and Sunday 1st September before it is prepared for its trip back south to Crich and commissioning ahead of an entry into service in time for the 60th anniversary of the museum site on 21st and 22nd September. A recent mileage extension agreed with Crich has meant that <strong>40<\/strong> has seen more use of late but with the summer holidays in full swing the higher capacity trams have been preferred. In this article we take a look at <strong>40<\/strong> resting around the depot fan. Photos by Trevor Hall.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29488\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=29488\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29488\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29488\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29488\" title=\"1.40-th\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1.40-th-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1.40-th-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1.40-th-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1.40-th.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">40 rests outside the depot, soaking up the summer sun.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_29489\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=29489\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29489\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29489\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29489\" title=\"2.196+40-th\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2.196+40-th-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2.196+40-th-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2.196+40-th-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2.196+40-th.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With a shunt taking place here we see 40 joined by Oporto 196 outside the depot. (Both Photographs by Trevor Hall, 21st August 2019)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its time in the northeast seems to have flown by but in a little over a week Blackpool &amp; Fleetwood Box 40 will have run for the very last time at Beamish with the plan being that it will operate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=29487\">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":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29487"}],"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=29487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29510,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29487\/revisions\/29510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}