{"id":55311,"date":"2024-09-14T22:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T21:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=55311"},"modified":"2024-09-12T21:05:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T20:05:54","slug":"london-trams-cr4000-2547-returns-to-therapia-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=55311","title":{"rendered":"London Trams CR4000 2547 returns to Therapia Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming just before the announcement of the shortlist to bid for a fleet of replacement trams was the return of a long-term out of service tram. <strong>2547<\/strong> made its return to London Trams\u2019 Therapia Lane Depot overnight on Saturday 6<sup>th<\/sup>\/Sunday 7<sup>th<\/sup> September and will now undergo further attention to enable it to be returned to service.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>2547<\/strong> has probably been one of the most long-term (with a view to seeing it return to service) out of use trams on a modern UK tram network with it not having operated since 20<sup>th<\/sup> February 2019. It was previously reported that it required a replacement underframe and a quote for this work to take place was accepted from Alstom. The tram moved to Ilford for this work to take place and earlier this year was spotted by keen observers as being outside of the railway depot in the Essex town.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst they have undertaken a lot of work on the tram it will still need further attention at Therapia Lane in order to bring it back into operating condition. This is likely to take some time so don\u2019t quite expect it to be running if you happen to pop over to Croydon in the next few weeks!<\/p>\n<p>When it does return to service it will bring the CR4000 fleet back up to 23 trams which will add extra capacity into the fleet and hopefully allow a full service to continue to run in the lead up to the new trams, due to enter service from the late 2020s.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55313\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2547-db.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55313\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55313\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2547-db-550x397.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2547-db-550x397.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2547-db-768x554.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2547-db.jpg 1286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2547 back home and sitting outside the workshops at Therapia Lane. (Photograph by David Brinkworth)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming just before the announcement of the shortlist to bid for a fleet of replacement trams was the return of a long-term out of service tram. 2547 made its return to London Trams\u2019 Therapia Lane Depot overnight on Saturday 6th\/Sunday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=55311\">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":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55311"}],"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=55311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55314,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55311\/revisions\/55314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}