{"id":36369,"date":"2020-11-22T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=36369"},"modified":"2020-11-22T08:26:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T08:26:26","slug":"ftt-trams-continue-to-progress-towards-a-return-to-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=36369","title":{"rendered":"FTT trams continue to progress towards a return to service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the Fylde Transport Trust\u2019s have continued to make steps towards a return to service in recent weeks with work having taken place on both <strong>Railcoach 279<\/strong> at Brinwell Road and <strong>Coronation 304<\/strong> at Rigby Road.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Firstly, some work was completed on <strong>Coronation 304<\/strong> at the end of October. This concentrated on the air door rams and the recently overhauled air compressor to make sure everything worked as it should. A LED voltmeter has also been trialled which it is proposed will be fitted discretely in both cabs to indicate to the driver the battery and charging voltage.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, although there hasn\u2019t been a lot of progress recently on <strong>Railcoach 279<\/strong> the electrical contractors have recently returned to fit the cab bulkhead panels and switches. Progress is also being made by a contractor on the fabrication of the cab windscreens but this work has been delayed as they also have a large contract with the NHS to complete.<\/p>\n<p>The other high profile FTT tram which remains off the road is <strong>Standard 143<\/strong>. The last update revealed on this last month was that the defective motor remains away at a contractor with its return awaited ahead of refitting and then testing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36370\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=36370\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36370\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36370\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/279-ftt-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/279-ftt-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/279-ftt-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/279-ftt-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/279-ftt.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This recent picture shows Raicoach 279 at Brinwell Road as progress continues on its restoration. (Photograph courtesy of Fylde Transport Trust)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the Fylde Transport Trust\u2019s have continued to make steps towards a return to service in recent weeks with work having taken place on both Railcoach 279 at Brinwell Road and Coronation 304 at Rigby Road.<\/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\/36369"}],"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=36369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36371,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36369\/revisions\/36371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}