{"id":30938,"date":"2019-11-12T20:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=30938"},"modified":"2019-11-12T19:31:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T19:31:40","slug":"in-pictures-22-enters-service-on-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=30938","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: 22 enters service on Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact it has been fitted with batteries for a number of weeks, <strong>22<\/strong> has previously carried passengers but that all changed on Tuesday 12th November when it was pressed into service for the first time \u2013 becoming either the 15th or 16th battery operated tram to run! The reason for the either\/or is that <strong>34<\/strong>, which had only recently been noted as being fitted, has been reported as being used the previous day but we don\u2019t have confirmation of this one way for certain just yet.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In other Urbos3 news a recent report in the Wolverhampton Express and Star has quoted officials at West Midlands Metro as saying that the damage caused to <strong>31<\/strong> when it was involved in a RTC during the summer wasn\u2019t as serious as originally thought and that it is hoped the tram \u2013 named Cyrille Regis MBE \u2013 will be ready to return to service in time for the opening of the Westside extension in December.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30939\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=30939\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30939\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30939\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30939\" title=\"1.22-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1.22-aw-550x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">22 makes the call at Corporation Street.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_30940\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=30940\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30940\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30940\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30940\" title=\"2.22+36-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/2.22+36-aw-550x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30940\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">22 meets up with 36 on its first day in passenger service. (Both Photographs by Andy Walters, 12th November 2019)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact it has been fitted with batteries for a number of weeks, 22 has previously carried passengers but that all changed on Tuesday 12th November when it was pressed into service for the first time \u2013 becoming either &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=30938\">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\/30938"}],"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=30938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30942,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30938\/revisions\/30942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}