{"id":41260,"date":"2021-08-30T18:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=41260"},"modified":"2021-08-24T20:41:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T19:41:13","slug":"whatever-happened-to-crich-tramathon-2005-blackpool-electric-locomotive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=41260","title":{"rendered":"Whatever Happened To? Crich Tramathon 2005 \u2013 Blackpool Electric Locomotive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201cWhatever Happened To?\u201d we feature the first of the Works cars which made it out onto the mainline \u2013 <strong>Blackpool Electric Locomotive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A valuable member of the Crich works fleet, the <strong>Blackpool Electric Locomotive<\/strong> has been on site constantly since 1966 having become surplus to requirements on its home tramway. Built in 1927 to tow coal wagons between Copse Road and Thornton Gate it continued in use for this until 1949 before being subsumed into the general works fleet. That was until the end of 1965 when it was withdrawn and acquired by the Tramway Museum Society. It was used up until 1983 when it required an overhaul which was duly completed the following year. It has since been in almost constant use.<\/p>\n<p>Operational in 2005 and still operational in 2021! While most of its use is for shunting trams when required it is also a regular performer at special enthusiasts events with various demonstration runs on the mainline, sometimes even carrying a limited number of passengers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41261\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=41261\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41261\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41261\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41261\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1.loco-gp-550x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1.loco-gp-550x365.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1.loco-gp-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1.loco-gp-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1.loco-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sitting outside the workshop on 12th June 2005 the Blackpool Electric Locomotive takes a break.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_41262\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=41262\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41262\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41262\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41262\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2.loco-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2.loco-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2.loco-gp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2.loco-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2.loco-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This time on 22nd September 2019 and the loco is again in the depot yard, although further across the yard, as it rests between shunting duties. (Both Photographs by Gareth Prior)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201cWhatever Happened To?\u201d we feature the first of the Works cars which made it out onto the mainline \u2013 Blackpool Electric Locomotive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41260"}],"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=41260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41263,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41260\/revisions\/41263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}