{"id":41749,"date":"2021-10-01T22:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T21:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=41749"},"modified":"2021-09-30T17:44:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T16:44:44","slug":"in-pictures-west-midlands-metro-gets-its-own-pride-tram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=41749","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: West Midlands Metro gets its own Pride Tram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have seen over the past few years that Manchester Metrolink often gets a Pride Tram to coincide with the Pride event in the city. And now following in Metrolink\u2019s footsteps is the West Midlands Metro with Urbos3 <strong>35<\/strong> receiving some rainbow stripes in the windows of the end section.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Birmingham Pride took place over the weekend of 25<sup>th<\/sup> and 26<sup>th<\/sup> September and it is presumed that the rainbow stripes were added ahead of the event. It remains to be seen whether they remain in place full-time or it becomes an addition just to cover Pride with different designs seen each year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41750\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=41750\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41750\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41750\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41750\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/35-aw-550x391.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">35 is seen here just leaving West Bromwich Central with its Pride Rainbow stripes in the lower section of the windows. (Photograph by Andy Walters, 29th September 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have seen over the past few years that Manchester Metrolink often gets a Pride Tram to coincide with the Pride event in the city. And now following in Metrolink\u2019s footsteps is the West Midlands Metro with Urbos3 35 receiving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=41749\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41749"}],"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=41749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41751,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41749\/revisions\/41751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}