{"id":852,"date":"2012-05-12T19:13:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T19:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=852"},"modified":"2012-05-12T19:13:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T19:13:24","slug":"brush-cars-galore-at-crich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=852","title":{"rendered":"Brush cars galore at Crich"},"content":{"rendered":"

The official launch into service of Blackpool Brush Railcoach 630<\/strong> at Crich Tramway Village took place on Saturday 12th May, with this providing the perfect excuse to hold a Brush-themed event day. Although intended as a relatively low-key event arranged at quite short notice, staff and volunteers pulled out all of the stops to ensure that this was a memorable occasion – and in the end,\u00a0630<\/strong> was arguably upstaged at its own launch event!<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The morning saw a number of photo opportunities with 630<\/strong> being posed alongside some of the Museum’s other Blackpool trams, including partially restored sister car 298<\/strong> and Jubilee car 762<\/strong>, which certainly caused a few heads to turn when it was towed out onto the depot fan! Afterwards, pre-paid ticket holders boarded 630<\/strong> for its first passenger journey at its new home, which included a rare opportunity to get off the tram and take photos\u00a0at Glory Mine. The car then remained in service until just before 4:00pm when it performed two ‘tram driver experience’ trips for competition winners, before it worked the final journey of the day.<\/p>\n

In-between there was no shortage of other activity with other trams built by Brush of Loughborough either in service or displayed on the depot fan. This included a surprise appearance in daylight by Grimsby & Immingham 14<\/strong> – but an even bigger surprise when Douglas Southern Electric Tramways 1<\/strong> was brought out and displayed on the traverser for a while. As this car rarely appears outside for events this was certainly a major highlight for those present, many of whom had never seen this tram out before. Its appearance was due to it being built by Falcon Car Works: effectively the predescesor of the Brush company.<\/p>\n

As well as the above, a shunting operation took place in the depots which led to other non-runners such as Blackpool 167<\/strong> and Glasgow 1282<\/strong> appearing in the yard at various times during the day. A lot of effort went into making this an enjoyable event, which easily surpassed all hopes and expectations. A more detailed report on this day, as well as a photo gallery, will hopefully be uploaded on British Trams Online<\/em> next weekend.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Seen at Glory Mine during its inagural passenger journey at Crich, here is Blackpool 630 looking superb in its carefully applied 1990s style livery, (Photo by Tony Waddington)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a>

An extremely rare shot of Douglas 1 on the traverser, having just emerged from the Exhibition Hall to the delight of the eager photographers present. (Photo by Tony Waddington)<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The official launch into service of Blackpool Brush Railcoach 630 at Crich Tramway Village took place on Saturday 12th May, with this providing the perfect excuse to hold a Brush-themed event day. Although intended as a relatively low-key event arranged … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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\/852"}],"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=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}