{"id":5603,"date":"2013-11-06T13:47:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T12:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=5603"},"modified":"2013-11-06T13:47:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T12:47:17","slug":"sunderland-16-gets-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=5603","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland 16 gets lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fortunes of the Beamish tram fleet seem to be improving, following a spate of bad luck recently. <strong>Grimsby &amp; Immingham 26<\/strong> re-entered service in late October following repairs to a motor defect, and this in turn has allowed staff and volunteers within the transport sector at the museum to focus their efforts on <strong>Sunderland<\/strong> <strong>16,<\/strong> a tram which has sat idle with worn tyres for a considerable length of time.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Having had its lifeguards and a few other components removed a few weeks previously, <strong>Sunderland<\/strong> <strong>16<\/strong> was lifted from its truck on Tuesday 5th November. This itself is no easy task, as the museum do no possess any electric\u00a0tram jacks, so the old-fashioned method has to be used &#8211; the guys at Crich don&#8217;t know how lucky they are!\u00a0The truck was then rolled out for attention, and the\u00a0motors have already been disconnected to gain access to the wheelsets, which are to be sent to Blackpool where they will be re-tyred before being returned to the museum. Hopefully they will be sent away next week. As mentioned before, <strong>16<\/strong> is due to receive some cosmetic addition including external re-varnishing and the application of &#8216;Shop at Binns&#8217; adverts, so it should look very smart when it returns to traffic, hopefully early\u00a0next year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5604\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=5604\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5604\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5604\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5604\" title=\"Sunderland 16 truck\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sunderland-16-truck-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sunderland-16-truck-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sunderland-16-truck-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sunderland-16-truck.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A close view of Sunderland 16&#39;s truck following seperation from the car body (visible behind). (Photo courtesey of the Beamish Transport &amp; Industry Blog)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fortunes of the Beamish tram fleet seem to be improving, following a spate of bad luck recently. Grimsby &amp; Immingham 26 re-entered service in late October following repairs to a motor defect, and this in turn has allowed staff &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=5603\">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":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603"}],"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=5603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5607,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions\/5607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}