{"id":3855,"date":"2013-05-21T20:29:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T19:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2013-05-21T20:29:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T19:29:30","slug":"centenary-car-delayed-by-failed-flexity2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=3855","title":{"rendered":"Centenary car delayed by failed Flexity2!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The morning of Monday 20th May witnessed a surprise appearance on Blackpool promenade by <strong>Centenary car 642<\/strong>, operating under its own power for the first time in just over 18 months. Having spent more than a week being prepared for service at Starr Gate depot, <strong>642<\/strong> was driven to Bispham for a test run before heading back to Rigby Road, although this latter journey didn&#8217;t pass entirely without incident.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On its return from Bispham, <strong>642<\/strong> was held up for a short time by <strong>Flexity 007<\/strong>, which had failed near Cabin. Fortunately, fitters were on site to attend to <strong>007<\/strong>&#8216;s fault and the tram was soon mobilised, before being driven back to Starr Gate empty for further attention. This allowed <strong>642<\/strong> to complete its longest journey since 2011, and it is pleasing to report that the car performed faultlessly despite its long lay-off. It is quite ironic, and rather amusing, that a type of tram which were often infamous for breaking down regularly was delayed by the breakdown of a Flexity2 tram which is normally extremely reliable! Hopefully the Centenary car will perform just as well this weekend, when it makes a one-off guest appearance on the heritage tram service on Sunday 26th May.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile work is also nearing completion to prepare <strong>648<\/strong> for its expected return to service on Saturday 25th May. Unfortunately, time constraints mean that it will not be possible to complete all of the planned work on this car prior to the weekend, but it will still be used in its freshly applied\u00a0heritage green &amp; cream livery, before returning to the works for some finishing touches. This should not detract too much however, from what looks set to be a superb weekend, and for those who have missed the Centenary cars it should be particularly enjoyable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The morning of Monday 20th May witnessed a surprise appearance on Blackpool promenade by Centenary car 642, operating under its own power for the first time in just over 18 months. Having spent more than a week being prepared for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=3855\">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":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855"}],"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=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3857,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions\/3857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}