{"id":49097,"date":"2023-04-13T20:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49097"},"modified":"2023-04-13T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T18:03:00","slug":"work-underway-on-blackpool-coronation-304","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49097","title":{"rendered":"Work underway on Blackpool Coronation 304"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few years one of the most intriguing and highly anticipated heritage tram projects has been the aim to return to VAMBAC fitted <strong>Blackpool Coronation 304<\/strong> to serviceable condition. Owned by the Fylde Transport Trust, the tram is located at Blackpool Transport\u2019s Rigby Road Depot (Tramtown if you prefer!) and the current focus of attention is on the installation of an independent emergency braking system.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As part of the plans to return the tram to service <strong>304<\/strong> requires this new braking system to be installed to ensure that it can be operated safely on the Blackpool Tramway. This has involved much work in the background to develop a system and then prepare for its installation. Electrical contractor JRW have been employed to both design and install this system and they have been making progress in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>To show the progress being made a series of videos have been released and these are available on YouTube at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLuzW8n0FM__VzsJ6pVsO8F75gvCFNYkfH\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLuzW8n0FM__VzsJ6pVsO8F75gvCFNYkfH<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Facebook the Fylde Transport Trust said: \u201cThese are videos made by our contractor and are being made available with the aim to demonstrate the effort in bringing this tram back to operational condition for Heritage services. There is still some work to go, and there maybe some modifications as testing takes place, so please bear that this is very much a &#8220;work in progress&#8221;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once the equipment is fully installed this will enable testing to get underway. Initial tests will be static and within the depot confines before it is extended to the Promenade. But these are still a way off and for now the most important thing is that the work is taking place which should in time enable <strong>304<\/strong> to return to the rails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few years one of the most intriguing and highly anticipated heritage tram projects has been the aim to return to VAMBAC fitted Blackpool Coronation 304 to serviceable condition. Owned by the Fylde Transport Trust, the tram is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49097\">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":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49097"}],"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=49097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49098,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49097\/revisions\/49098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}