{"id":14522,"date":"2016-05-01T07:48:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T06:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14522"},"modified":"2016-05-01T07:48:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T06:48:04","slug":"picture-in-time-midland-metro-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14522","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Midland Metro 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Probably the most popular livery to ever be carried on a Midland Metro tram features in our latest installment of Picture in Time as we take a look at T69 <strong>11<\/strong> whilst it was carrying its Birmingham Corporation inspired colour scheme.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Although <strong>11<\/strong> had been in the West Midlands since 6th October 1998 it wasn\u2019t to be until 23rd August 2013 that it really stood out from the crowd. That was the day that the tram unveiled at Birmingham Snow Hill in its Blue and Cream livery which was applied to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the closure of Birmingham Corporation Tramways in 1953. A new livery is also bound to turn heads and that was the case for <strong>11<\/strong> with it probably becoming the most photographed member of the fleet from this date onwards. However it wasn\u2019t destined to run in service like this for long as it was withdrawn from service in December 2014 and after having been stored at Wednesbury Depot finally departed on 8th March 2016 for further storage at Long Marston where it remains today.<\/p>\n<p>In this view we see <strong>11<\/strong> about to leave Bilston Road and drop down to Priestfield with a service from Wolverhampton St George\u2019s to Birmingham Snow Hill on 29th January 2014.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14523\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=14523\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14523\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14523\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14523\" title=\"11-ts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/11-ts-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/11-ts-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/11-ts-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/11-ts.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Tony Sullivan<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably the most popular livery to ever be carried on a Midland Metro tram features in our latest installment of Picture in Time as we take a look at T69 11 whilst it was carrying its Birmingham Corporation inspired colour &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14522\">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":[35,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522"}],"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=14522"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14530,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522\/revisions\/14530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}