{"id":40449,"date":"2021-07-16T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40449"},"modified":"2021-07-10T16:12:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T15:12:54","slug":"lockdown-walks-west-midlands-metro-18-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40449","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Walks: West Midlands Metro 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its time for another \u201cLockdown Walk\u201d with the West Midlands Metro the location again.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>CAF built Urbos3 no. <strong>18<\/strong> was one of the first trams on the West Midlands Metro to receive full external commercial advertising (along with <strong>21<\/strong>) when it received an advert for Just Eat in February 2019. This would remain in situ until February 2021 when the vinyls were finally removed. They had originally survived a change of base livery when it went full blue from the hybrid livery.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40450\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=40450\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40450\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40450\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/18-dn-413x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/18-dn-413x550.jpg 413w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/18-dn-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/18-dn.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">18 at Handsworth Booth Street on the way to Wednesbury Parkway (which was the temporary northerly terminus because a bridge was being removed in Bilston). (Photograph by Dan Noon, 2nd June 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its time for another \u201cLockdown Walk\u201d with the West Midlands Metro the location again.<\/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\/40449"}],"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=40449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40451,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40449\/revisions\/40451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}