{"id":62588,"date":"2026-04-12T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=62588"},"modified":"2026-04-12T10:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T09:35:11","slug":"blackpool-236-makes-it-double-figures-for-trams-at-crich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=62588","title":{"rendered":"Blackpool 236 makes it double figures for trams at Crich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And then there were ten! The National Tramway Museum have now seen ten different trams operate in passenger service in 2026 with another Blackpool tram the latest to be used.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Boat Car 236<\/strong> was used for the first time on Wednesday 8<sup>th<\/sup> April 2026. And with a brief sunny and warm spell being seen it was certainly a welcome return to the operating fleet for the single deck open top tram.<\/p>\n<p><strong>236<\/strong> is the third open tram to have been used in service during 2026. It follows on from <strong>Newcastle 102<\/strong> (which admittedly only ran briefly on the first of the season) and London County Council 106 (which has seen fairly extensive use so far).<\/p>\n<p>The tram last ran at the tail end of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>The ten trams which have been used in service so far this year are <strong>Glasgow 22<\/strong>, <strong>Blackpool Standard 40<\/strong>, <strong>Blackpool &amp; Fleetwood Box 40<\/strong>, <strong>Sheffield 74<\/strong>, <strong>Newcastle 102<\/strong>, <strong>London County Council 106<\/strong>, <strong>Blackpool 167<\/strong>, <strong>Blackpool 236<\/strong>, <strong>Leeds 345<\/strong>, and <strong>Leeds 399<\/strong>. That\u2019s four from Blackpool, two from Leeds and one each from Glasgow, Sheffield, Newcastle, and London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And then there were ten! The National Tramway Museum have now seen ten different trams operate in passenger service in 2026 with another Blackpool tram the latest to be used.<\/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\/62588"}],"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=62588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62589,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62588\/revisions\/62589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}