{"id":40686,"date":"2021-07-29T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40686"},"modified":"2021-07-24T14:00:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T13:00:48","slug":"lockdown-walks-west-midlands-metro-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40686","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Walks: West Midlands Metro 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this edition of \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d we head out into central Birmingham again for a look at the West Midlands Metro.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Its not quite a uniform fleet on the West Midlands Metro as not all 21 of the original Urbos3 trams have received a complete blue livery with a couple still seeing having white battery compartment covers. One of those is <strong>25<\/strong> which as well as that oddity retains adverts for OLA which gives an interesting colour combination of blue and green on the tram.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40687\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=40687\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40687\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40687\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40687\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1.25-kj-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1.25-kj-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1.25-kj-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1.25-kj-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1.25-kj.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this first view 25 has just departed from Bull Street and now continues its journey to Library. Note the white battery covers on the top of the tram.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_40688\" style=\"width: 422px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=40688\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40688\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40688\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40688\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2.25-kj-412x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2.25-kj-412x550.jpg 412w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2.25-kj-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2.25-kj.jpg 968w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another look at 25 as it continues on its way to Library. It is now turning from Bull Street into Corporation Street. (Both Photographs by Ken Jones, 7th July 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this edition of \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d we head out into central Birmingham again for a look at the West Midlands Metro.<\/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\/40686"}],"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=40686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40689,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40686\/revisions\/40689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}