{"id":53701,"date":"2024-05-11T22:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T21:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53701"},"modified":"2024-05-11T15:29:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T14:29:12","slug":"chesterfield-7-returns-to-service-at-crich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53701","title":{"rendered":"Chesterfield 7 returns to service at Crich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst the majority of trams which have carried passengers at the Crich Tramway Village so far in 2024 were part of the operating fleet at times last year, the latest tram to be used for the first time does not fall into that category. That is <strong>Chesterfield 7<\/strong> which, as we saw recently, had been in the Workshop for preparation for use and it was fully commissioned in time to be used on Wednesday 8<sup>th<\/sup> May 2024.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chesterfield 7<\/strong> had last been used in 2022, and it received somewhat of a farewell during Tram Day that year when it was publicised that it was to be withdrawn from service ahead of joining the queue of trams which required workshop attention. At that time it wasn\u2019t expected that it would come back into use so quickly but with a limited number of open toppers currently available for service (<strong>Blackpool 236<\/strong> is the only open car to have been commissioned so far) its open balcony has led it to coming back into the operational fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Its return to service has obviously been popular as well as not only was it used on 8<sup>th<\/sup> May but has since been in action on both Thursday 9<sup>th<\/sup> and Saturday 11<sup>th<\/sup> May.<\/p>\n<p>With <strong>7<\/strong> having entered service 12 trams have now run in passenger service in 2024. The others are <strong>Glasgow 22<\/strong>, <strong>Blackpool 40<\/strong>, <strong>Sheffield 74<\/strong>, <strong>Blackpool 167<\/strong>, <strong>Leeds 180<\/strong>, <strong>Blackpool 236<\/strong>, <strong>Metropolitan Electric Tramways 331<\/strong>, <strong>Leeds 399<\/strong>, <strong>Sheffield 510<\/strong>, <strong>Blackpool 630<\/strong> and <strong>Liverpool 869<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst the majority of trams which have carried passengers at the Crich Tramway Village so far in 2024 were part of the operating fleet at times last year, the latest tram to be used for the first time does not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53701\">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\/53701"}],"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=53701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53702,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53701\/revisions\/53702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}