{"id":6823,"date":"2014-03-13T19:32:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T19:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=6823"},"modified":"2014-03-13T19:32:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T19:32:29","slug":"twin-car-sighted-at-starr-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=6823","title":{"rendered":"Twin car sighted at Starr Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest member of Blackpool&#8217;s heritage tram fleet to pay a visit to the state-of-the-art tram depot at Starr Gate, is <strong>Twin set 272+T2<\/strong>. The pair first visited this building last autumn to rectify some minor defects, and now they have returned in preparation for use during 2014. When cutbacks for the heritage tram service were announced it was feared that the Twin car &#8211; which requires a crew of three whenever it runs &#8211; may struggle to find a role on the tramway\u00a0this year, but happily it is now being commissioned early in the year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It is not known when<strong> 272+T2<\/strong> actually made the journey from Rigby Road to Starr Gate, but with depot transfers generally taking place every Friday for the last few weeks, it is most likely that it moved on March 7th. This latest move means that cars <strong>66<\/strong>, <strong>147<\/strong>, <strong>230<\/strong>, <strong>272+T2<\/strong>, <strong>631<\/strong>, <strong>648<\/strong>, <strong>706<\/strong> and <strong>717<\/strong> have all spent time at Starr Gate for commissioning work ahead of the return of the heritage tram service at Easter. This means that most of the operational historic trams have now passed through this process, bearing in mind that <strong>Box 40<\/strong> is currently undergoing more extensive work and <strong>Balloon 701<\/strong> is expected to be repainted before it makes its year debut in passenger service. This should ensure that a great selection of cars will be available for Easter, and will get another year of heritage operation off to the best possible start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest member of Blackpool&#8217;s heritage tram fleet to pay a visit to the state-of-the-art tram depot at Starr Gate, is Twin set 272+T2. The pair first visited this building last autumn to rectify some minor defects, and now they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=6823\">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":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823"}],"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=6823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6824,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823\/revisions\/6824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}