{"id":26718,"date":"2019-03-31T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26718"},"modified":"2019-03-31T09:28:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T08:28:06","slug":"in-pictures-change-of-pairing-for-unrefurbished-metro-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26718","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Change of pairing for unrefurbished Metro Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we mentioned a few weeks ago of the Metro Cars currently in service on the Tyne and Wear Metro there are four which weren\u2019t refurbished and as such can only interwork between themselves. Last time we saw them the two prototypes \u2013 <strong>4001<\/strong> and <strong>4002<\/strong> \u2013 were being used together but this has now changed with Emirates all over advert car <strong>4083<\/strong> now paired with <strong>4002<\/strong>. Unusually these cars were allocated to a non-peak working on Monday 25th March \u2013 usually the non-refurbished cars are usually only used on peak workings. The fourth unrefurbished car \u2013 <strong>4040<\/strong> \u2013 remains out of service meaning that <strong>4001<\/strong> is also unable to be used.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26719\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=26719\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26719\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26719\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26719\" title=\"4083-th\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/4083-th-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/4083-th-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/4083-th-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/4083-th.jpg 1297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">4083+4002 at Pelaw on 25th March with a service from St James to South Shields. Note the all over advert for 4083. (Photograph by Trevor Hall)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we mentioned a few weeks ago of the Metro Cars currently in service on the Tyne and Wear Metro there are four which weren\u2019t refurbished and as such can only interwork between themselves. Last time we saw them the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26718\">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":[67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26718"}],"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=26718"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26742,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26718\/revisions\/26742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}