{"id":32608,"date":"2020-02-18T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=32608"},"modified":"2020-02-19T19:49:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T19:49:12","slug":"in-pictures-27-starts-testing-with-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=32608","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: 27 starts testing with batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After just over two months with no new battery fitted trams being completed on the West Midlands Metro we are about to see the 20th of the 21 strong class of Urbos3 trams return to service so fitted with <strong>27<\/strong> having now started testing on the mainline.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>27<\/strong>\u2019s first daylight mainline runs with batteries took place on Tuesday 18th February with it undertaking a few test runs along the tramway. Its first actual runs took place overnight on 6th\/7th February as part of the commisioning and testing process. The tram retains its adverts for OLA and has been fully completed in blue as the battery compartments have also received the vinyls. Of note, is that <strong>24<\/strong>, <strong>25<\/strong> and <strong>32<\/strong> retain the white battery covers at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>With <strong>27<\/strong> now completed with batteries \u2013 albeit not in service as yet \u2013 this leaves just <strong>26<\/strong> to go and that is now poised to join the ranks as it has been withdrawn from service for this work to take place. It had been used on a limited basis since the extension to Library had opened as it could only run as far as Grand Central (no overhead any further!) with its final use on Tuesday 11th February.<\/p>\n<p>Long-term absentee <strong>31<\/strong> also remains out of action, although works to prepare this for a return are still ongoing. You may recall that <strong>31<\/strong> suffered accident damage in a collision in Wolverhampton last summer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32609\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=32609\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32609\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32609\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32609\" title=\"1.27-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1.27-aw-550x364.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"364\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">27 passes Lodge Road with a test run towards Birmingham.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_32610\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=32610\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32610\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32610\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32610\" title=\"2.27-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2.27-aw-550x312.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another shot of 27 as it returns towards Wednesbury through Soho Benson Road. (Both Photographs by Andy Walters, 18th February 2020)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After just over two months with no new battery fitted trams being completed on the West Midlands Metro we are about to see the 20th of the 21 strong class of Urbos3 trams return to service so fitted with 27 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=32608\">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\/32608"}],"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=32608"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32639,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32608\/revisions\/32639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}