{"id":50929,"date":"2023-09-09T22:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T21:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50929"},"modified":"2023-09-06T20:24:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T19:24:38","slug":"new-president-appointed-of-tramway-museum-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50929","title":{"rendered":"New President appointed of Tramway Museum Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year the Tramway Museum Society \u2013 who own and operate the National Tramway Museum at Crich Tramway Village \u2013 appoint a President who officiates at special events and attend meetings which help to guide the direction of the Society. Recently the appointment for 2023\/4 has been made with Sue Whiteley taking the role from outgoing President Bob Pennyfather.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sue Whitely has been a volunteer at Crich since 1997 and a conductor since 2002. Sue, from Macclesfield, started as a volunteer in the Workshop alongside husband Peter, and they both regularly maintain the trams as well as crewing together.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about she likes most about her volunteering role, Sue said: \u201cI actually like cleaning the trams. It gives you a great sense of satisfaction when you can see a positive result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Karen Rigg, Chairman of the Tramway Museum Society, said: \u201cWe are very pleased to welcome Sue as our President to represent the Society for the coming year and I look forward to working closely with her\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50931\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=50931\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50931\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50931\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50931\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/suewhiteley-ctv-413x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/suewhiteley-ctv-413x550.jpg 413w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/suewhiteley-ctv-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/suewhiteley-ctv.jpg 968w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sue Whiteley complete with Presidential medal poses in front of MET 331. (Photograph courtesy of Crich Tramway Village)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year the Tramway Museum Society \u2013 who own and operate the National Tramway Museum at Crich Tramway Village \u2013 appoint a President who officiates at special events and attend meetings which help to guide the direction of the Society. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50929\">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":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50929"}],"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=50929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50932,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50929\/revisions\/50932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}