{"id":3242,"date":"2013-03-20T20:26:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T20:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2013-03-20T20:26:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T20:26:08","slug":"leeds-6-left-stranded-at-beamish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=3242","title":{"rendered":"Leeds 6 left stranded at Beamish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend&#8217;s Spring Gala event at the Heaton Park Tramway seems to have suffered from more than its share of bad luck, with numerous changes to the billed events happening due to events beyond the organisers&#8217; control. Unfortunately, there has been another blow &#8211; <strong>Leeds 6<\/strong> will not be able to make the trip from Beamish to Manchester ahead of the event, and will therefore be unable to\u00a0operate as planned.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leeds 6<\/strong> was expected to be the one of the stars of the show at the March 24th event, having spent almost three years at Beamish. Sadly, due to a problem experienced by the haulage firm who had been contracted to move the tram, it will not be possible for it to be transported back home to Heaton Park in time for this event. The move will now be re-arranged, and any plans to relaunch <strong>6<\/strong> into traffic at Manchester will of course be announced in due course. The same issue has also affected <strong>Lisbon 730&#8217;s<\/strong> move from Birkenhead to Beamish, which was due this week. The car is now expected to head to the North East some time next week instead, ready to appear at the museum&#8217;s tramway anniversary event in April. Unfortunatley this situation really is just &#8216;one of those things&#8217;, as it is believed that the low loader which was to be used for these moves is currently out of action.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Heaton Park Tramway&#8217;s Spring Gala will obviously be poorer for the absence of <strong>Leeds 6<\/strong>, it is hoped that the event will still attract a good crowd. This will of course be the first chance for visitors to ride upon the rejuvinated <strong>Stockport 5<\/strong>, and with <strong>Blackpool 623<\/strong> and <strong>Manchester 765<\/strong> also operating as well as two visiting buses from the Lancastrian Transport Trust collection and hopefully a few other surprises, this should still be a good day out&#8230; and if that doesn&#8217;t appeal, there will also be cake!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend&#8217;s Spring Gala event at the Heaton Park Tramway seems to have suffered from more than its share of bad luck, with numerous changes to the billed events happening due to events beyond the organisers&#8217; control. Unfortunately, there has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=3242\">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":[4,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242"}],"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=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3244,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions\/3244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}