{"id":63696,"date":"2026-07-05T17:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63696"},"modified":"2026-07-05T11:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T10:15:21","slug":"theyve-run-in-2026-meet-the-trams-national-tramway-museum-liverpool-869","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63696","title":{"rendered":"They\u2019ve Run in 2026 \u2013 Meet the Trams: National Tramway Museum \u2013 Liverpool 869"},"content":{"rendered":"

The next tram we meet that has run in service during 2026 at the National Tramway Museum is Liverpool 869<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Liverpool 869 was built in 1936 in Liverpool Corporation\u2019s own workshops at Edge Lane as the second of an eventual fleet of 163 trams known as \u201cLiners\u201d. These were modern tramcars and seemed to be confirming that there was a future for trams in the city but following World War II policies changed and the abandonment of the tramway system would begin with the final tram service ending in 1957.<\/p>\n

By then 869<\/strong> had found a new home with it being one of the \u201cLiners\u201d which had been purchased by Glasgow Corporation Tramway. There it became 1055<\/strong> in the fleet and first ran during 1955 before it would be withdrawn five years later.<\/p>\n

Fortunately the tram was to be preserved with the Liverpool University Public Transport Society agreeing to purchase it during a farewell tour. This led to the Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society being formed and saw the tram initially move to outside storage in Leeds before it returned home to Liverpool. Restoration commenced before another move came in 1979 \u2013 this time to Crich on an initial loan.<\/p>\n

Ownership of the tram subsequently transferred to the Tramway Museum Society to allow a full restoration to take place but it wouldn\u2019t be until 1990 that it would enter the Workshops and once this was complete it entered service in preservation during July 1993. Like most other trams it has not been in service consistently since then with more periods in the Workshop but it has returned to action in 2026 having missed 2025.<\/p>\n

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Liverpool 869 arrives at Glory Mine on a sunny day in 2019. (Photograph by Gareth Prior, 21st September 2019)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next tram we meet that has run in service during 2026 at the National Tramway Museum is Liverpool 869.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[121,8,120],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63696"}],"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=63696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63698,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63696\/revisions\/63698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}