{"id":48100,"date":"2023-01-18T21:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T21:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=48100"},"modified":"2023-01-18T19:45:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T19:45:50","slug":"major-investment-to-beamish-tramway-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=48100","title":{"rendered":"Major investment to Beamish Tramway infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tramway at Beamish is currently undergoing a programme of upgrade work to ensure that it remains safe and operational in a year that will see it celebrate its 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary. Beamish have recently appointed a new Transport Infrastructure Manager and he had developed a programme of work which will take place over this winter and spring period.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Beamish are investing tens of thousands of pounds on new grooved and flat bottomed rail, plastic sleepers and more equipment to allow for the smooth process of installing the new infrastructure. The main area of concentration for now will be the section between Town East (the Bank\/Chemist corner) and Pockerley.<\/p>\n<p>This will see 25% of the sleepers replaced with the new plastic versions, restoration of the current rails in the cobbled street area and attention to the ballast bed. The first work underway is on the rails in the cobbled street which will not see a full relay as it would be disruptive and more expensive. Instead welding is being used on the track here to restore the rail profile with external contractors being used to complete this work. Its hoped it will be finished before the end of January on the inner circle route with the outer circle to see similar work next winter.<\/p>\n<p>Sleeper replacement is also already underway with one in four being replaced. This allows regular spacing of the new plastic sleepers and allows frequent inspections to ensure the soundness of the sleepers at this interval. This work will continue over the next few years until the whole route is finished.<\/p>\n<p>As winter continues it is also the intention to replace the track on the Town curves (in the tarmacked section) before rerailing is completed on \u201cBog Bend\u201d (the first curve on the tramway when travelling from Foulbridge to the Town in a clockwise direction).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tramway at Beamish is currently undergoing a programme of upgrade work to ensure that it remains safe and operational in a year that will see it celebrate its 50th anniversary. Beamish have recently appointed a new Transport Infrastructure Manager &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=48100\">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":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48100"}],"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=48100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48101,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48100\/revisions\/48101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}