{"id":37006,"date":"2020-12-29T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=37006"},"modified":"2020-12-20T11:20:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T11:20:32","slug":"whatever-happened-to-midland-metro-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=37006","title":{"rendered":"Whatever Happened To? Midland Metro 07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far in this series of \u201cWhatever Happened To\u201d its been a case of \u201cits been scrapped\u201d, but this time we come to the first survivor of the T69s.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That tram is <strong>07<\/strong> which had made the journey from Italy to Wednesbury in August 1998 with arrival date being recorded as 4<sup>th<\/sup> August 1998. Of the T69s which would run on <strong>Midland Metro 07<\/strong> possibly has one of the more interesting stories as it spent a long period out of service but had actually been the official first tram on 31<sup>st<\/sup> May 1999. It suffered a collision with a lorry in the early years of service and became a spares donor for a number of years before it was overhauled and returned to service in 2008, including a repaint into the Network West Midlands Silver and Magenta livery. It would remain in service until September 2014.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t have long to hang around Wednesbury Depot though as it was moved on 16<sup>th<\/sup> October 2014 to Long Marston for further storage. And that is where it remains today! It has been acquired by UK Tram and although it has remained unmoved since then it at least still survives today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_37007\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=37007\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37007\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37007\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37007\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1.07-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1.07-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1.07-gp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1.07-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1.07-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">07 \u2013 in the Network West Midlands livery \u2013 calls at Dudley Street on its way to Wolverhampton St George\u2019s. This is 4th October 2013. (Photograph by Gareth Prior)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_37008\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=37008\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37008\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37008\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2.07-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">07 departs from Midland Metro on 16th October 2014, just a little over a month since it had last carried passengers. (Photograph by Andy Walters)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far in this series of \u201cWhatever Happened To\u201d its been a case of \u201cits been scrapped\u201d, but this time we come to the first survivor of the T69s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37006"}],"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=37006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37009,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37006\/revisions\/37009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}