{"id":26979,"date":"2019-08-26T20:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26979"},"modified":"2019-08-21T20:57:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T19:57:20","slug":"in-pictures-livery-variations-on-west-midlands-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26979","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Livery variations on West Midlands Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past few months hasseen West Midlands Metro showing a good variety of different livery styles on the 21 strong class, with advert liveries, new fleet livery and a special livery all in evidence. Before it started to get quite so hectic with the new liveries we take a look at some of the trams in service as they were in April 2019.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26980\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=26980\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26980\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26980\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26980\" title=\"1.18-in\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1.18-in-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1.18-in-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1.18-in-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1.18-in.jpg 1259w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On 21st March 2019 we see 18 in its advert for Just Eat \u2013 including West Midlands Metro blue ends \u2013 at Grand Central.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_26981\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=26981\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26981\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26981\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26981\" title=\"2.22-in\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2.22-in-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2.22-in-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2.22-in-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2.22-in.jpg 1265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The old Midland Metro livery with West Midlands Metro logos is seen on 22 at Black Lake on 9th April.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_26982\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=26982\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26982\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26982\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26982\" title=\"3.31-in\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/3.31-in-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/3.31-in-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/3.31-in-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/3.31-in.jpg 1287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corporation Street on 13th April is the location for this shot of 31. This tram is the only one to receive the full West Midlands Metro livery and has also been named Cyrille Regis MBE complete with silhouette of the former West Bromwich Albion footballer. (All Photographs by Ian Nightingale)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past few months hasseen West Midlands Metro showing a good variety of different livery styles on the 21 strong class, with advert liveries, new fleet livery and a special livery all in evidence. Before it started to get quite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26979\">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\/26979"}],"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=26979"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29519,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26979\/revisions\/29519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}