{"id":43077,"date":"2021-12-22T20:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T20:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43077"},"modified":"2021-12-22T16:53:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T16:53:41","slug":"in-pictures-urbos-100s-continue-to-stretch-their-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43077","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Urbos 100s continue to stretch their legs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we have seen over the past week or so since services on the West Midlands Metro resumed on 15<sup>th<\/sup> December, the new Urbos 100 trams (number 38 up) have been used fairly regularly in passenger service with now four different examples having officially entered service. These are <strong>38<\/strong>, <strong>39<\/strong>, <strong>40<\/strong> and <strong>42<\/strong>. One such day when all four were allocated for service \u2013 albeit two only as peak extras \u2013 was Tuesday 21<sup>st<\/sup> December which is when the photos in this pictorial article were taken by Andy Walters.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43078\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43078\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43078\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43078\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43078\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.42-aw-550x253.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">42 calls at West Bromwich Central heading out to Wolverhampton St George\u2019s.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_43079\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43079\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43079\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43079\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43079\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.3942-aw-550x253.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">As 42 stops at Wednesbury Great Western Street it is met by 39 which is heading south to Birmingham.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_43080\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43080\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43080\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43080\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43080\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/3.40-aw-1-253x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"550\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Also in service was 40 which is seen end on here.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_43081\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43081\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43081\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43081\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43081\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/4.42-aw-550x254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An internal view on board 42. The odometer on this tram shows it has cover 2840km so far.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_43082\" style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43082\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43082\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43082\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43082\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/5.poster-aw-254x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"550\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the publicity for the return of services. (All Photographs by Andy Walters, 21st December 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we have seen over the past week or so since services on the West Midlands Metro resumed on 15th December, the new Urbos 100 trams (number 38 up) have been used fairly regularly in passenger service with now four &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43077\">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\/43077"}],"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=43077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43083,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43077\/revisions\/43083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}