{"id":14366,"date":"2016-04-13T18:55:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T17:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14366"},"modified":"2016-04-13T18:55:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T17:55:43","slug":"midland-metro-welcomes-37-to-the-operating-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14366","title":{"rendered":"Midland Metro welcomes 37 to the operating fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>20 of the 21 Urbos 3 trams for Midland Metro have now carried passengers with the latest to enter service being <strong>37<\/strong> \u2013 the last of the trams to have been delivered back on 7th July 2015. <strong>37<\/strong> had been undergoing commissioning and mileage accumulation over the past few months and after the rectification of a small fault was passed over to traffic with its first passenger use believed to have been on Tuesday 12th April (unless anyone knows differently?)<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The entry into service of <strong>37<\/strong> means that only <strong>17<\/strong> has not yet carried passengers with this tram \u2013 which was the very first of the class arrive in the West Midlands on 11th October 2013 \u2013 continuing to be consigned to depot with no start apparent in its own commissioning process.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14367\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=14367\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14367\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14367\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14367\" title=\"1.37-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1.37-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">37 at Soho Benson Road on 13th April.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14368\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=14368\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14368\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14368\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14368\" title=\"2.37-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2.37-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another view taken on 13th April of 37 this time at Dudley Street. (Both Photographs by Andy Walters)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 of the 21 Urbos 3 trams for Midland Metro have now carried passengers with the latest to enter service being 37 \u2013 the last of the trams to have been delivered back on 7th July 2015. 37 had been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14366\">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\/14366"}],"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=14366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14370,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14366\/revisions\/14370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}