{"id":50384,"date":"2023-07-21T22:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50384"},"modified":"2023-07-25T19:31:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T18:31:37","slug":"damaged-wheels-and-brexit-blamed-for-tramlink-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50384","title":{"rendered":"Damaged wheels and Brexit blamed for Tramlink woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report on the <a href=\"https:\/\/insidecroydon.com\/\">https:\/\/insidecroydon.com\/<\/a> Inside Croydon website has confirmed that the current tram shortages being suffered on the London Tramlink network have been caused by wheel damage with repairs taking longer than they should because of supply issues due to Brexit.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time in recent months that wheel damage has led to trams having to be withdrawn (the start of June also saw problems) but this time the severity of the issue has seen the Elmers End service completely suspended for a week now. The New Addington line was also suspended for a couple of days earlier in the month and although working again the tram shortage means that there are large gaps in the service.<\/p>\n<p>The report states that seven trams are completely off the road and awaiting repairs, but with the supply of spare parts proving challenging it is taking longer than it should to bring them back into use. Brexit is said to blame for this as the parts need to come from Europe and this is taking longer than it would have done before the UK left the EU.<\/p>\n<p>The blame for this wheel damage \u2013 said to be unconnected to that at the start of June \u2013 is a foreign object on the tracks. This was found after engineers walked the route of the tramway with the metal object discovered on the tracks. It has now been removed but of course the damage has already been done.<\/p>\n<p>Repairs to the affected trams are continuing at Therapia Lane Depot but this will take some time with delays to the service to remain in place until sufficient trams are available once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report on the https:\/\/insidecroydon.com\/ Inside Croydon website has confirmed that the current tram shortages being suffered on the London Tramlink network have been caused by wheel damage with repairs taking longer than they should because of supply issues due &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50384\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50384"}],"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=50384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50385,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50384\/revisions\/50385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}