{"id":24502,"date":"2018-11-02T22:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T22:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=24502"},"modified":"2018-11-02T20:29:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T20:29:59","slug":"in-pictures-battery-trams-%e2%80%93-and-then-there-were-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=24502","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Battery trams \u2013 and then there were five!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Midlands Metro are now the proud operators of five battery fitted trams following the return to service of <strong>28<\/strong>. The tram continues to run in the old Network West Midlands livery of Magenta and White \u2013 still leaving <strong>31<\/strong> as the only tram in the new Blue livery \u2013 and was first spotted operating in passenger service at the beginning of November.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>28<\/strong> entering service means that five of the 21 Urbos3 trams are now installed with batteries which will allow them to run in service on sections of the West Midlands Metro system which won\u2019t be fitted with overhead wires (both in Birmingham and Wolverhampton city centres \u2013 currently under construction). The five are <strong>18<\/strong>, <strong>21<\/strong>, <strong>28<\/strong>, <strong>31<\/strong> and <strong>36<\/strong> \u2013 eventually all the trams will be so fitted.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, despite having now been back at Wednesbury for over seven months since receiving repairs at Wolverton following a derailment at the depot it appears that <strong>26<\/strong> is still awaiting a return to service.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24503\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=24503\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24503\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24503\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24503\" title=\"28-mc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/28-mc-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/28-mc-550x309.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/28-mc-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/28-mc.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">28 at Corporation Street on the evening of 2nd November. (Photograph by Mark Cufflin)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Midlands Metro are now the proud operators of five battery fitted trams following the return to service of 28. The tram continues to run in the old Network West Midlands livery of Magenta and White \u2013 still leaving 31 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=24502\">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\/24502"}],"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=24502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24505,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24502\/revisions\/24505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}