{"id":29946,"date":"2019-09-15T14:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=29946"},"modified":"2019-09-15T10:30:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T09:30:26","slug":"standard-143-work-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=29946","title":{"rendered":"Standard 143 work continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The launch of <strong>Blackpool Standard 143<\/strong> is now a little over a week away and with this in mind the past week has seen some good progress made on the tram\u2019s restoration with it now to be found in the Rigby Road Paint Shop.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->To assist with the work still to be completed the trams owners, the Fylde Transport Trust, arranged for a volunteer work party to attend Rigby Road during the past week. With Blackpool Transport\u2019s own coachpainter concentrating on the exterior of the tram \u2013 with full exterior panelling now in place \u2013 the volunteers concentrated on the interior giving a coat of grey floor paint.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the paintwork \u2013 which in itself has seen remarkable progress over the past few days \u2013 the destination boxes (complete with glass) \u2013 have now been fitted with the tram really starting to take shape ahead of its planned launch on 23rd September.<\/p>\n<p>The main paintwork is due to be completed ahead of a visit by specialists from the Isle of Man in the week commencing 16th September to put the decorative additions to the paintwork.<\/p>\n<p>The tram is due to be launched in a special ceremony on Monday 23rd September before it is then down to run a tour for the Fylde Tramway Society on Friday 27th September and then be seen by the general public during the September Spectacular event on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th September.<\/p>\n<p>* Regular updates of progress are being posted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Fylde-Transport-Trust\">Fylde Transport Trust Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch of Blackpool Standard 143 is now a little over a week away and with this in mind the past week has seen some good progress made on the tram\u2019s restoration with it now to be found in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=29946\">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":[7,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29946"}],"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=29946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29947,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29946\/revisions\/29947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}