{"id":30895,"date":"2019-11-09T18:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=30895"},"modified":"2019-11-09T17:58:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T17:58:36","slug":"picture-in-time-tyne-and-wear-metro-4049","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=30895","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Tyne and Wear Metro 4049"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s dip in the archives sees us return to the Tyne and Wear Metro as we continue to look around the depot during the 30th anniversary depot anniversary.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This time around we see <strong>4049<\/strong> stabled in the outside sidings whilst it was carrying a very simple all over advert for Kidd &amp; Sporr Harper Solicitors. With standard yellow doors and a black body the train retained full yellow ends as well. <strong>4049<\/strong> was one of the Metro Cars built in Birmingham by Metro Cammell from 1978 until 1981.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30896\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=30896\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30896\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30896\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30896\" title=\"4049-th\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/4049-th-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/4049-th-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/4049-th-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/4049-th.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Trevor Hall<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s dip in the archives sees us return to the Tyne and Wear Metro as we continue to look around the depot during the 30th anniversary depot anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30895"}],"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=30895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30898,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30895\/revisions\/30898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}