{"id":16600,"date":"2017-02-10T20:35:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T20:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=16600"},"modified":"2017-02-10T20:35:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T20:35:25","slug":"in-pictures-midland-metro-urbos-3-27-on-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=16600","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Midland Metro Urbos 3 27 on test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After several months out of service \u2013 following a collision with a road vehicle in Wolverhampton \u2013 Urbos 3 <strong>27<\/strong> is nearing a return to service with the tram undergoing a test run on Friday 10th February.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Leaving the depot with CAF engineers on board <strong>27<\/strong> ran behind <strong>19<\/strong> all the way to Wolverhampton St George\u2019s and then Grand Central before heading back to Wednesbury Great Western Street, this time trailing <strong>28<\/strong>. Following arrival here the tram returned to depot its test run having bene completed. <strong>27<\/strong> has received two new nose ends during its time out of service as its previous ends had been taken off to keep other members of the fleet in service (<strong>19<\/strong> and <strong>28<\/strong>). It is understood that in the collision with a car in Wolverhampton <strong>27<\/strong> suffered some body damage which has had to be rectified before it could be considered for a return to service.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that providing that the test run was a success that <strong>27<\/strong> will rejoin the operational fleet next week.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16601\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=16601\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16601\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16601\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16601\" title=\"1.27-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1.27-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">27 heads through Loxdale on its rest run.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16602\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=16602\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16602\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16602\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16602\" title=\"2.27-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2.27-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And then we see the tram in Birmingham City Centre heading back out of the city. (Both Photographs by Andy Walters)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several months out of service \u2013 following a collision with a road vehicle in Wolverhampton \u2013 Urbos 3 27 is nearing a return to service with the tram undergoing a test run on Friday 10th February.<\/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\/16600"}],"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=16600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16604,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16600\/revisions\/16604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}