{"id":12760,"date":"2015-10-11T11:28:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T10:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=12760"},"modified":"2015-10-11T11:28:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T10:28:19","slug":"picture-in-time-midland-metro-09-15-and-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=12760","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Midland Metro 09, 15 and 06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are back on Midland Metro for the latest edition of Picture in Time for a view taken during the initial testing period and we see three trams all in one photo \u2013 <strong>09<\/strong>, <strong>15<\/strong> and <strong>06<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The date is 23rd February 1999 when our photographer took a trip to the West Midlands to see if he could get some views of the testing of the latest new generation tramway to open in the UK and when he was at Priestfield he was treated to this scene of three trams in action. In the stop we have <strong>09<\/strong> on the right which is in the northbound platform whilst the unnumbered T69 opposite is <strong>15<\/strong>. Meanwhile in the background we can see <strong>06<\/strong> which is waiting for some movement so that he too can draw forward into the platform.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12761\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=12761\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12761\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12761\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12761\" title=\"09+15+06-ts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/09+15+06-ts-550x347.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/09+15+06-ts-550x347.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/09+15+06-ts-1024x646.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/09+15+06-ts.jpg 1244w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Tony Sullivan<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are back on Midland Metro for the latest edition of Picture in Time for a view taken during the initial testing period and we see three trams all in one photo \u2013 09, 15 and 06.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12760"}],"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=12760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12764,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12760\/revisions\/12764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}