{"id":63596,"date":"2026-06-30T22:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63596"},"modified":"2026-06-30T19:41:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:41:50","slug":"manx-electric-railway-crossbench-16-returns-to-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63596","title":{"rendered":"Manx Electric Railway Crossbench 16 returns to service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Manx Electric Railway now have another Crossbench Car to call upon for service with no. <strong>16<\/strong> returning to service on Thursday 25<sup>th<\/sup> June 2026.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1898-built <strong>16<\/strong> had last run in passenger during 2024 after which it was withdrawn from service to allow a full overhaul to take place. This saw its trucks worked on whilst it has also received a repaint in the traditional red and white livery of the Manx Electric Railway.<\/p>\n<p>After work was completed the tram was allowed out onto the mainline for full testing during Wednesday 24<sup>th<\/sup> June 2026, firstly solo and then later with the company of trailer <strong>37<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>With all going well the tram was then used for service for the first time in almost two years on Thursday 25<sup>th<\/sup> June 2026.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There was another significant event on the Manx Electric Railway on Thursday 25<sup>th<\/sup> June 2026 when for the first time in over 130 years of operation as a tram ran with an all-female crew for the very first time. And to make it all the more significant they were out on no. <strong>2<\/strong>, one of the oldest trams in the fleet!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Manx Electric Railway now have another Crossbench Car to call upon for service with no. 16 returning to service on Thursday 25th June 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63596"}],"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=63596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63597,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63596\/revisions\/63597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}