{"id":10960,"date":"2015-04-21T17:35:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T17:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10960"},"modified":"2015-04-25T17:47:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T17:47:30","slug":"midland-metro-t69-book-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10960","title":{"rendered":"Midland Metro T69 book coming soon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The previously announced book on the Midland Metro T69s is now at the printers and will soon be available for purchase. <strong>An Illustrated History of the Midland Metro T69 Trams<\/strong> is written by Andrew Coward and features 160 pages in full colour and is certain to be a popular addition to the bookshelf of any self respecting tram enthusiast!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The book covers the entire history of the trams from their construction through to the present day and is illustrated with over 370 colour photos. Produced will full help and assistance of Centro and National Express West Midlands the book will be in perfect-bound A4 format and costs just \u00a317.50 (including free postage and packing). All profits from the sale of the book will be donated to Macmillan Cancer Support and all photographers have kindly supplied their images to the book free of charge to help raise as much money as possible for this deserving charity.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Coward\u2019s last tram book (on the Manchester Metrolink T68\u2019s and co-written with John Henderson) has raised \u00a33,000 for Bury Hospice and anyone who has a copy of that book should know what to expect from this book on the Midland Metro T69s \u2013 in other words it really should be added to your book collection if you have any interest in the UK light rail scene. And for those who don\u2019t yet have a copy of the Metrolink book as a special offer you can purchase both of these books for just \u00a327.50 (a discount of \u00a38) exclusively on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buryrossendalerails.com\">www.buryrossendalerails.com<\/a>. It is anticipated that the book will be back from the printers by early May.<\/p>\n<p>So what are you waiting for? Get over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buryrossendalerails.com\">www.buryrossendalerails.com<\/a> and put in your order for <strong>An Illustrated History of the Midland Metro T69 Trams<\/strong>!<a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=10961\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10961\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10961\" title=\"T69book\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/T69book-388x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/T69book-388x550.jpg 388w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/T69book-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/T69book.jpg 868w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The previously announced book on the Midland Metro T69s is now at the printers and will soon be available for purchase. An Illustrated History of the Midland Metro T69 Trams is written by Andrew Coward and features 160 pages in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10960\">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\/10960"}],"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=10960"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10974,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960\/revisions\/10974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}