{"id":40020,"date":"2021-06-19T22:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T21:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40020"},"modified":"2021-06-19T13:43:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T12:43:50","slug":"cardiff-21-returns-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40020","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff 21 returns home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cardiff 21<\/strong> \u2013 which has been on loan at the Crich Tramway Village since 2009 \u2013 has now returned to Wales as the tram moves as the home of the National Tramway Museum continue. The departure of <strong>21<\/strong> follows on from Derby 1\u2019s move last week.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As we\u2019ve reported previously with the impending return to service of <strong>London Transport 1622<\/strong>, <strong>Newcastle 102<\/strong> and eventually <strong>London County Council 1<\/strong> plus the start of the restoration of <strong>Blackpool 298<\/strong> space at Crich was at a premium meaning that decisions had to be made to move trams off site. With <strong>Cardiff 21<\/strong>\u2019s loan agreement coming to an end the decision was taken not to renew it.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday 18<sup>th<\/sup> June the tram was prepared for its move back to Wales with the very familiar sight of a Scotts low loader at Crich to facilitate its return. With the tram sheeted over for its move it soon left and headed back to the National Museum of Wales\u2019 Collection Centre at Nantgarw. While the Collections Centre is not open to the general public, free group tours can be booked with more details on how to do this at <a href=\"https:\/\/museum.wales\/collections-centre\/\">https:\/\/museum.wales\/collections-centre\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The horse tram collection at Crich now consists of single deckers <strong>Sheffield 15<\/strong> (the operational member of the fleet), <strong>Chesterfield 8<\/strong> and <strong>Oporto 9<\/strong> as well as double-decker <strong>Leeds 107<\/strong>. These four will be joined in the future by another fully restored double-decker with <strong>North Metropolitan Tramways 184<\/strong> on the long-term workshop programme.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t expected to be until after <strong>Blackpool 29<\/strong>8\u2019s restoration is completed that the North Met Horse Car will move in for restoration but fundraising has already been started by the London County Council Tramways Trust to fund the restoration. There are in fact the remains of two North Met horse trams in store at Clay Cross with <strong>184<\/strong> (acquired in 1979) along with an unidentified example which was discovered and moved to Derbyshire in 2016. As the only confirmed identity is that of 184, that is what the finished tram will be known as.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s for the future \u2013 for now we can say farewell to Cardiff 21 after its 12 year loan period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff 21 \u2013 which has been on loan at the Crich Tramway Village since 2009 \u2013 has now returned to Wales as the tram moves as the home of the National Tramway Museum continue. The departure of 21 follows on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40020\">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":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40020"}],"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=40020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40021,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40020\/revisions\/40021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}