{"id":35050,"date":"2020-08-05T18:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=35050"},"modified":"2020-08-05T16:19:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T15:19:37","slug":"picture-in-time-midland-metro-03-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=35050","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Midland Metro 03 &#038; 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our modern tram edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d this week moves to the Midland Metro for the next few weeks. Now, these articles are usually written several weeks and months in advance (none more so than in 2020 when there hasn\u2019t been much else going on!) and these images feature trams in the snow \u2013 just as we seem to be approaching the hottest period of the year! I aim to be topical&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s image we are at Handsworth Booth Street where two of the T69s meet as their respective ways. On the left we see <strong>03<\/strong> with a service for Wolverhampton St George\u2019s whilst it is joined by <strong>14<\/strong> heading for Birmingham Snow Hill. The snow seems to be still coming down at this point but the trams don\u2019t seem to be showing any ill effects and the shelters provides some cover for a lone passenger wishing to go to Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>The snow day on this occasion was 6th February 2012.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35051\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=35051\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35051\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35051\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35051\" title=\"03+14-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/03+14-aw-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Andy Walters<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our modern tram edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d this week moves to the Midland Metro for the next few weeks. Now, these articles are usually written several weeks and months in advance (none more so than in 2020 when there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=35050\">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":[35,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35050"}],"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=35050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35053,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35050\/revisions\/35053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}