{"id":14084,"date":"2016-03-14T19:47:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14084"},"modified":"2016-03-14T19:47:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:47:56","slug":"in-pictures-tramlink-stadler-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14084","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Tramlink Stadler update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Progress has been continuing with the introduction of the second batch of London Tramlink Stadler Variobahn trams with all but <strong>2563<\/strong> now in service whilst <strong>2562<\/strong> has had the special vinyl wrap added to one end in the same style as <strong>2560<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The second batch of Stadler built trams arrived over a seven month period in 2015 \u2013 <strong>2560<\/strong> arriving in May and <strong>2563<\/strong> in December \u2013 and have gradually been introduced into service over the latter part of the year and early part of 2016 with the exception of <strong>2563<\/strong>. This tram has now started daylight testing ahead of its own entry into service.<\/p>\n<p>The other change to this batch of trams is the livery of <strong>2562<\/strong> which is now carrying the unwrapping vinyl wrap livery on one end as per that added to <strong>2560<\/strong> for the launch of the new platform arrangement at Wimbledon in November 2015.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14085\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=14085\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14085\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14085\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14085\" title=\"1.2563-ib\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1.2563-ib-550x374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1.2563-ib-550x374.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1.2563-ib-1024x697.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1.2563-ib.jpg 1202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2563 passes Therapia Lane on a daylight test run on 11th March 2016.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14086\" style=\"width: 376px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=14086\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14086\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14086\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14086\" title=\"2.2562-ib\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2.2562-ib-366x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2.2562-ib-366x550.jpg 366w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2.2562-ib-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2.2562-ib.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2562 sits at Beckenham Junction on 14th March 2016 showing off its new vinyl wrap. (Both Photographs by Ian Buck)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress has been continuing with the introduction of the second batch of London Tramlink Stadler Variobahn trams with all but 2563 now in service whilst 2562 has had the special vinyl wrap added to one end in the same style &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14084\">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":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14084"}],"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=14084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14088,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14084\/revisions\/14088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}