And still they keep coming! There are now eight trams on the West Midlands Metro to carry the full new blue livery with 35 the latest to have received the vinyls, first noted in service in this condition on Friday 16th August. In the process it has lost its Angus Adams name (named by the Queen in 2015) but presumably this will be reapplied at some point in the future.
With only battery fitted trams receiving the blue vinyls there is only 20 – which recently returned to service complete with batteries – which hasn’t received some form of new livery. 17, 23, 28, 29, 30 (not yet in service), 31, 35 and 37 are in the full livery with 18, 21 and 36 in part new livery and adverts and 19 in 20th anniversary livery.
35 – minus name – and its new blue livery.
A close-up of the end section of 35. (Both Photographs by Andy Walters, 16th August 2019)