{"id":38756,"date":"2021-03-21T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=38756"},"modified":"2021-03-22T16:03:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T16:03:16","slug":"lockdown-walks-west-midlands-metro-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=38756","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Walks: West Midlands Metro 34"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d we head into Birmingham City Centre for a view at the current end of the line.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Since December 2019 the Birmingham City Centre terminus of the West Midlands Metro line from Wolverhampton St George\u2019s has been found at Library in Centenary Square. Giving excellent access to the Library as well as Birmingham Symphony Hall it has only ever been planned as a temporary terminus with the second phase of the Westside extension to Hagley Road, Edgbaston due to open later in 2021.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38757\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=38757\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38757\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38757\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38757\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/34-rb-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/34-rb-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/34-rb-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/34-rb-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/34-rb.jpg 1286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this photo we take a look at 34 which is sitting at the Library terminus before departing for Wolverhampton. The tram is in the full blue West Midlands Metro blue livery without adverts. (Photograph by Roland Bull, 5th March 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d we head into Birmingham City Centre for a view at the current end of the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[88,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38756"}],"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=38756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38758,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38756\/revisions\/38758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}