{"id":45305,"date":"2022-06-08T20:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T19:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45305"},"modified":"2022-06-08T19:22:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T18:22:09","slug":"two-more-trams-for-east-anglia-transport-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45305","title":{"rendered":"Two more trams for East Anglia Transport Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the erstwhile Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust collection of trams are set to find a new home at the East Anglia Transport Museum with news that Blackpool trams <strong>Brush Car 290<\/strong> and <strong>Ex-Towing Railcoach 678<\/strong> will be heading east later this year. A team from the museum recently visited the trams to complete negotiations for their acquisition with preparations for their movement to follow.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As we\u2019ve reported before, the East Anglia Transport Museum have acquired extra land adjacent to the current museum site and part of this will house a new tram depot as well as an extended tramway and to ease the burden on the current operating fleet it has been decided to add some extra trams to the operating fleet (although both will likely require extensive work before they can run having both been stored outside for several years).<\/p>\n<p>The two trams the museum are due to purchase are currently stored at different locations on the Fylde Coast. <strong>Brush Car 290<\/strong> is in undercover storage at Rigby Road Depot (on behalf of the Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust) having been moved there in 2015 after three years of display at Pleasure Beach whilst <strong>Railcoach 678<\/strong> is at Wyre Dock where it has been since leaving Rigby Road in late 2011. Both have suffered from spending many years in outside storage and certainly don\u2019t look their best; <strong>678<\/strong> last ran in 2006 and <strong>290<\/strong> in 2009 (for one night only!). <strong>678<\/strong> is currently in a plain black livery after previous advertising vinyls were removed whilst <strong>290<\/strong> is in a green and cream livery it ended its days on display at Pleasure Beach in.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the trams the Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust are also donating tram track to the museum (including pointwork from Blundell Street Depot which had been given to the Trust by contractors during the redevelopment of that site for what is now a stalled housing development).<\/p>\n<p>Details of the exact plans the East Anglia Transport Museum have for the two trams have not been announced but they are expected to make the move to East Anglia later this year from their respective locations. With the EATM currently have four serviceable trams plus <strong>Blackpool Marton VAMBAC 11<\/strong> out of service plus the restorations of <strong>Lowestoft 14<\/strong> and <strong>Glasgow 488<\/strong> making apparent good progress it appears that the coming years could see a varied and impressive tram fleet at Carlton Colville!<\/p>\n<p>Provided there are no last minute hitches in the acquisition of these trams it will leave just <strong>Brush 637<\/strong>, <strong>Centenary Car 641<\/strong>, <strong>Twin Car 673+683<\/strong> and <strong>Balloon 710<\/strong> at Wyre Dock waiting for a saviour to come to their rescue. The Trust continue to be seeking to dispose of their entire collection after their plans for a visitor attraction in Fleetwood were unable to proceed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the erstwhile Fleetwood Heritage Leisure Trust collection of trams are set to find a new home at the East Anglia Transport Museum with news that Blackpool trams Brush Car 290 and Ex-Towing Railcoach 678 will be heading east &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45305\">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":[10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45305"}],"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=45305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45306,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45305\/revisions\/45306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}