{"id":40569,"date":"2021-07-21T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40569"},"modified":"2021-07-17T15:30:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T14:30:30","slug":"lockdown-walks-west-midlands-metro-33-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40569","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Walks: West Midlands Metro 33"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we continue \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d we again find ourselves in the West Midlands for another image taken on the Metro system.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The West Midlands Metro system currently consists of a single line between Library at Centenary Square in Birmingham and Wolverhampton St George\u2019s. Opened in four stages so far the network is currently entering a period of major expansion with lines in Birmingham and Wolverhampton due to open this year with further extensions to Digbeth and Brierley Hill to follow in the coming years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40570\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=40570\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40570\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40570\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40570\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/33-dn-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/33-dn-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/33-dn-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/33-dn-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/33-dn.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is 33 arriving at Handsworth Booth Street on its way to Wednesbury Parkway. (Photograph by Dan Noon, 2nd June 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we continue \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d we again find ourselves in the West Midlands for another image taken on the Metro system.<\/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\/40569"}],"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=40569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40571,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40569\/revisions\/40571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}