{"id":24478,"date":"2018-11-01T18:12:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T18:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=24478"},"modified":"2018-11-01T18:12:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T18:12:34","slug":"picture-in-time-midland-metro-09-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=24478","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Midland Metro 09 &#038; 08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are back in the West Midlands for another image from the past featuring two of the original T69 trams on Midland Metro.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This image was captured on 23rd September 2014 \u2013 only four years ago but a lot has changed in the intervening years with the trams now long gone and even a new name for the system \u2013 and shows two different liveries meeting at Soho Benson Road. On the left we have <strong>09<\/strong> \u2013 carrying the later Network West Midlands Silver &amp; Magenta livery \u2013 with a service for Birmingham Snow Hill whilst we also see <strong>08<\/strong> which is heading towards the Soho Benson Road stop as it works through to Priestfield. <strong>08<\/strong> is in the original Red, Purple, Yellow, Green and Grey livery. Both trams have now been scrapped having been sold at auction.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24479\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=24479\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24479\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24479\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24479\" title=\"09+08-ts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/09+08-ts-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/09+08-ts-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/09+08-ts.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Tony Sullivan<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are back in the West Midlands for another image from the past featuring two of the original T69 trams on Midland Metro.<\/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\/24478"}],"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=24478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24482,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24478\/revisions\/24482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}