{"id":29356,"date":"2019-08-17T22:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T21:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=29356"},"modified":"2019-08-16T21:23:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T20:23:19","slug":"in-pictures-another-blue-tram-on-west-midlands-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=29356","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Another blue tram on West Midlands Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And still they keep coming! There are now eight trams on the West Midlands Metro to carry the full new blue livery with <strong>35<\/strong> the latest to have received the vinyls, first noted in service in this condition on Friday 16th August. In the process it has lost its Angus Adams name (named by the Queen in 2015) but presumably this will be reapplied at some point in the future.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->With only battery fitted trams receiving the blue vinyls there is only <strong>20<\/strong> \u2013 which recently returned to service complete with batteries \u2013 which hasn\u2019t received some form of new livery. <strong>17<\/strong>, <strong>23<\/strong>, <strong>28,<\/strong> <strong>29<\/strong>, <strong>30<\/strong> (not yet in service), <strong>31<\/strong>, <strong>35<\/strong> and <strong>37<\/strong> are in the full livery with <strong>18<\/strong>, <strong>21<\/strong> and <strong>36<\/strong> in part new livery and adverts and <strong>19<\/strong> in 20th anniversary livery.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29357\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=29357\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29357\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29357\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29357\" title=\"1.35-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1.35-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">35 \u2013 minus name \u2013 and its new blue livery.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_29360\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=29360\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29360\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29360\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29360\" title=\"2.35-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2.35-aw2-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A close-up of the end section of 35. (Both Photographs by Andy Walters, 16th August 2019)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And still they keep coming! There are now eight trams on the West Midlands Metro to carry the full new blue livery with 35 the latest to have received the vinyls, first noted in service in this condition on Friday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=29356\">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\/29356"}],"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=29356"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29396,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29356\/revisions\/29396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}