{"id":10208,"date":"2015-02-02T20:02:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T20:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10208"},"modified":"2015-02-02T20:02:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T20:02:48","slug":"in-pictures-urbos-3-27-enters-service-on-midland-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10208","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Urbos 3 27 enters service on Midland Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day when a full Midland Metro weekday service is operated by the new Urbos 3 trams can\u2019t be far off as there are now 10 of the class available for passenger service following the entry into service of <strong>27<\/strong> on Monday 2nd February. <strong>27<\/strong> was used from the start of service until shortly before 1500 when it retired to depot and was replaced by T69 <strong>04<\/strong> for the remainder of the day. <strong>33<\/strong> also saw further testing on the same day.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10209\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=10209\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10209\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10209\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10209\" title=\"1.27-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1.27-aw-550x320.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">27 on its first day in passenger service.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10211\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=10211\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10211\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10211\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10211\" title=\"2.27+10-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2.27+10-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">27 approaches the third platform at Wednesbury Parkway as its first day in service draws to a close.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10212\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=10212\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10212\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10212\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10212\" title=\"3.27+04-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/3.27+04-aw-550x308.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">27 at Wednesbury Parkway with T69 04 alongside which was to take on the diagram for the rest of the day. (All Photos: Andy Walters)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day when a full Midland Metro weekday service is operated by the new Urbos 3 trams can\u2019t be far off as there are now 10 of the class available for passenger service following the entry into service of 27 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10208\">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":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208"}],"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=10208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10214,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208\/revisions\/10214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}