{"id":30670,"date":"2019-10-30T20:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=30670"},"modified":"2019-10-30T18:04:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T18:04:33","slug":"in-pictures-21-gains-the-full-blue-livery-leaving-just-one-tram-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=30670","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: 21 gains the full blue livery leaving just one tram to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The days of any resemblance of the old Network West Midlands livery are rapidly drawing to a close with 20 of the 21 strong Urbos3 trams now carrying the full blue vinyls \u2013 <strong>21<\/strong> is the latest to join the ranks leaving just special liveried <strong>19<\/strong> left with white\/silver sections. <strong>21<\/strong>\u2019s new livery retains the red based adverts for Just Eat.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>21<\/strong> was first seen in service sporting its new look on Tuesday 29th October with the tram again identical to <strong>18<\/strong> (a tram which received the blue vinyls earlier this month whilst also retaining its Just Eat adverts).<\/p>\n<p>With <strong>19<\/strong> now flying the flag for the old brand it looks set to be very soon that there is a fairly uniform look to the fleet (except for the various adverts carried on the trams) for the first time since July 2018 when <strong>31<\/strong> became the first tram to receive the blue vinyls. How long <strong>19<\/strong> will remain blue-less remains to be seen but judging by how quickly trams have gone blue recently it isn\u2019t likely to be too long \u2013 whether it keeps its special 20th anniversary vinyls at the same time remains to be seen, as it always does!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30671\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=30671\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30671\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30671\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30671\" title=\"21-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/21-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">21 leaves Black Lake behind as its off to Birmingham in autumnal sunshine. (Photograph by Andy Walters, 29th October 2019)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The days of any resemblance of the old Network West Midlands livery are rapidly drawing to a close with 20 of the 21 strong Urbos3 trams now carrying the full blue vinyls \u2013 21 is the latest to join the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=30670\">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\/30670"}],"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=30670"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30678,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30670\/revisions\/30678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}