{"id":7507,"date":"2014-05-05T22:44:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T21:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=7507"},"modified":"2014-05-05T22:44:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T21:44:06","slug":"a-mini-tramathon-for-crich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=7507","title":{"rendered":"A mini Tramathon for Crich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite not hosting a special event for the May Day Bank Holiday weekend, Sunday 4th and Monday 5th May saw a bumper tram service at Crich Tramway Village, with a very impressive total of eleven different trams used over these two days. Sunday was a particularly good day with seven cars operating, including <strong>Oporto 273<\/strong> for the first time since 2010!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With plenty of crews available and a promising weather forecast on Sunday 4th May, efforts were made to run extra trams with the ever-popular open cars dominating the day&#8217;s output. For most of the day six trams were running, these being <strong>Chesterfield 7<\/strong>, <strong>Southampton 45<\/strong>, <strong>Blackpool 166<\/strong>, <strong>Blackpool 236<\/strong>, <strong>Oporto 273<\/strong> and <strong>Berlin 3006<\/strong>. However, later in the day <strong>Blackpool 40<\/strong> also entered service to provide extra capacity. This day was also unusual as the single deckers in service outnumbered the double deckers, something which doesn&#8217;t often happen at Crich, but with so many trams out the need for high capacity cars was reduced. Star of the day was probably <strong>Oporto 273<\/strong>; this tram had recently passed through the works and is now back in the running fleet for the first time since an ill-fated visit to Blackpool in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The following day was almost as good with cars <strong>7<\/strong>, <strong>40<\/strong> and <strong>45<\/strong> all in action again, and this time they were joined by double-deck cars <strong>Leeds 399<\/strong>, <strong>Glasgow 1068<\/strong> and <strong>London Transport 1622<\/strong>. Although this wasn&#8217;t part of an advertised event, visitors on this extended weekend were certainly treated to a fantastic selection of trams in action &#8211; a far cry from many days when last season when the museum struggled to find enough volunteers to run more than two trams. Hopefully this wasn&#8217;t a fluke, and whilst it would be unreasonable to expect so many trams in service on normal weekdays, it would certainly be great to have more days like this at Crich!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite not hosting a special event for the May Day Bank Holiday weekend, Sunday 4th and Monday 5th May saw a bumper tram service at Crich Tramway Village, with a very impressive total of eleven different trams used over these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=7507\">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":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507"}],"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=7507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7509,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions\/7509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}