{"id":30006,"date":"2019-09-21T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=30006"},"modified":"2019-09-19T20:38:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T19:38:33","slug":"in-pictures-4040-returns-to-service-on-tyne-and-wear-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=30006","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: 4040 returns to service on Tyne and Wear Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst we have been concentrating on the new Tyne and Wear Metro fleet currently being procured we mustn\u2019t forget the current fleet which continues to operate the service. Shortages of the Metro Cars are often seen with peak time extras unable to run which does mean that some of the unrefurbished vehicles are pressed into service at times. The four which weren\u2019t refurbished were <strong>4001<\/strong>, <strong>4002<\/strong>, <strong>4040<\/strong> and <strong>4083<\/strong> with <strong>4040<\/strong> recently seen back in service for the first time in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Coupled with fellow unrefurbished train <strong>4083<\/strong> (they can only run amongst themselves), <strong>4040<\/strong> was running on peak time extras on 18th September. As for <strong>4083<\/strong> this is the only Metro Car not to carry fleet livery with a long-standing advert for Emirates Airline instead being carried. The two prototype vehicles <strong>4001<\/strong> and <strong>4002<\/strong> have also not been seen for a while with the former last noted in May and <strong>4002<\/strong> in April.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30007\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=30007\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30007\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30007\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30007\" title=\"4083-th\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/4083-th-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/4083-th-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/4083-th-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/4083-th.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">4083 in Emirates livery with 4040 at Pelaw with a peak time extra which terminates here. (Photograph by Trevor Hall, 18th September 2019)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst we have been concentrating on the new Tyne and Wear Metro fleet currently being procured we mustn\u2019t forget the current fleet which continues to operate the service. Shortages of the Metro Cars are often seen with peak time extras &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=30006\">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\/30006"}],"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=30006"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30018,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30006\/revisions\/30018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}