{"id":8469,"date":"2014-08-02T17:04:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T16:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=8469"},"modified":"2014-08-02T17:04:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T16:04:35","slug":"derailment-on-the-snaefell-mountain-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=8469","title":{"rendered":"Derailment on the Snaefell Mountain Railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first day of this year\u2019s Manx Heritage Transport Festival saw an extra event added, although it would be fair to say that it wasn\u2019t planned and Isle of Man Railways could probably have done without it! Throughout the Festival the Snaefell Mountain Railway really takes a bit of a back seat with most major events taking place either on the Steam Railway or the Manx Electric Railway but this year the SMR was determined to play a major role with first a minor fire on board <strong>3<\/strong> and then when it was rescued to be returned to depot a derailment involving its rescuer.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->At approximately 1400 just as <strong>3<\/strong> was departing Laxey a minor fire broke out on the roof of the vehicle which caused it to be brought to a halt just the summit side of the road crossing of the main road through Laxey. The Fire Service were quickly on site and extinguished the fire with the passengers being led to safety.<\/p>\n<p>The next tram from the summit \u2013 which was no. <strong>4<\/strong> \u2013 was coupled to no. <strong>3<\/strong> to tow it back to depot but rather than a smooth operation this proved to be the source of further problems. As no. <strong>4<\/strong> attempted to move the tram to depot the rear pair of wheels on 4 split the points, derailing which also lifted the leading wheelset of <strong>3<\/strong> off the rails. The coupling bar between the two cars had become jammed and when this was released the wheelset of <strong>3<\/strong> became fully derailed. No. <strong>5<\/strong> was then summoned to assist and eventually all three cars were able to be returned to depot.<\/p>\n<p>That is obviously what happens when a railway feels left out of the events!<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Ken Walker for the information contained in this article.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first day of this year\u2019s Manx Heritage Transport Festival saw an extra event added, although it would be fair to say that it wasn\u2019t planned and Isle of Man Railways could probably have done without it! Throughout the Festival &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=8469\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469"}],"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=8469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8470,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions\/8470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}