{"id":5089,"date":"2013-09-10T19:45:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T18:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=5089"},"modified":"2013-09-10T19:45:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T18:45:11","slug":"another-one-bites-the-dust-at-crich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=5089","title":{"rendered":"Another one bites the dust at Crich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, <strong>Metropolitan Electric Tramways 331<\/strong> has become the latest vehicle to be withdrawn from service at Crich Tramway Village, home of the National Tramway Museum. Following on from the withdrawal of <strong>Blackpool &amp; Fleetwood &#8216;Rack&#8217; 2<\/strong>, <strong>Southampton 45<\/strong> and <strong>Johannesburg 60<\/strong> earlier this year, <strong>331<\/strong> has now become the fourth tram to be sidelined during 2013 following a mishap.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It was previously reported that <strong>MET 331<\/strong> had suffered a derailment at Glory Mine during the second day of the museum&#8217;s &#8216;Capital Weekend&#8217; in July. Unfortunately, the tram has not operated since, and is expected to be lifted for a thorough examination to determine what damage, if any, has been sustained, and whether any obvious cause of the derailment can be found. The Feltham\u00a0car is therefore unlikely to run again this year.<\/p>\n<p>It is to be sincerely hoped that the efforts required to return <strong>331<\/strong> to service can be made sooner rather than later, as the longer it sits idle, the less likely it is to run again in the foreseeable future. Despite the loss of several useful and popular operational cars in 2013, the running fleet remains at a respectable sixteen trams which is, of course, considerably more than any other British museum tramway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, Metropolitan Electric Tramways 331 has become the latest vehicle to be withdrawn from service at Crich Tramway Village, home of the National Tramway Museum. Following on from the withdrawal of Blackpool &amp; Fleetwood &#8216;Rack&#8217; 2, Southampton 45 and Johannesburg &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=5089\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5090,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions\/5090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}