At the end of September 2024, West Midlands Metro Urbos100 tram 56 was named Amman Ahmed after a local volunteer who won a contest as part of the 50for50WM campaign which celebrated 50 years of the West Midlands County. Then around about a week later the tram suffered a fault and hasn’t been seen since – until now!
56 was noted back in service on Tuesday 3rd December which was one of its first uses since early October 2024, so its been the best part of two months since the tram was last seen in service.
The tram has around 124,850km on the clock upon its return, the fact its been missing for some time is shown by the 209,833km seen on another of the Urbos100 trams, 43.
56 is one of six West Midlands Metro trams which is named, three Urbos3 and three Urbos100s:
28 – Jasper Carrott
31 – Cyrille Regis MBE 1958-2018
37 – Ozzy Osbourne
39 – Don & Roy Richardson
40 – Teresa Stewart
56 – Amman Ahmed