{"id":40793,"date":"2021-07-31T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40793"},"modified":"2021-07-30T19:11:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T18:11:12","slug":"lockdown-walks-west-midlands-metro-22-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40793","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Walks: West Midlands Metro 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And we\u2019re off to Birmingham again for this edition of \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The original 21 Urbos3 trams which run on the West Midlands Metro were built by CAF in Zaragoza, Spain between 2013 and 2015 and were then delivered to Wednesbury Depot by way of Plymouth. Originally built without batteries included they were subsequently fitted, all except <strong>18<\/strong> being done at the depot. The example we see in the below photos \u2013 <strong>22<\/strong> \u2013 was delivered on 9<sup>th<\/sup> April 2014, accepted for service on 27<sup>th<\/sup> August 2014 and returned to service after fitting with batteries on 12<sup>th<\/sup> November 2019.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40794\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=40794\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40794\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40794\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40794\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1.22-kj-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1.22-kj-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1.22-kj-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1.22-kj-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1.22-kj.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image number one shows 22 rounding the curve from Corporation Street to Bull Street with a Birmingham to Wolverhampton service.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_40795\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=40795\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40795\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40795\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40795\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2.22-kj-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2.22-kj-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2.22-kj-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2.22-kj-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2.22-kj.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We then see the tram arriving at Bull Street where 25 is waiting at the stop heading in the opposite direction. (Both Photographs by Ken Jones, 7th July 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And we\u2019re off to Birmingham again for this edition of \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d.<\/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\/40793"}],"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=40793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40796,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40793\/revisions\/40796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}