{"id":43469,"date":"2022-01-26T18:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T18:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43469"},"modified":"2022-01-22T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T13:40:08","slug":"out-and-about-new-trams-on-the-west-midlands-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43469","title":{"rendered":"Out and About: New trams on the West Midlands Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we have seen in our main news articles recently, following the return to operation of the West Midlands Metro on Wednesday 15<sup>th<\/sup> December several of the newer Urbos 100 trams have entered service for the first time. In our latest \u201cOut and About\u201d we see a couple of them in service.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43470\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43470\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43470\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43470\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43470\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1.39-mm-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1.39-mm-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1.39-mm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1.39-mm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1.39-mm.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">39 is captured on camera here at Colmore Row as it approaches the current city centre terminus of Bull Street (just visible on the right in the distance).<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_43471\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43471\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43471\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43471\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43471\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2.40-mm-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2.40-mm-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2.40-mm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2.40-mm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2.40-mm.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The driver and conductor of 40 wait on the platform at Bull Street as the tram waits out time before heading back to Wolverhampton St George\u2019s. (Both Photographs by Michael Morton, 18th December 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we have seen in our main news articles recently, following the return to operation of the West Midlands Metro on Wednesday 15th December several of the newer Urbos 100 trams have entered service for the first time. In our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43469\">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":[100,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43469"}],"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=43469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43472,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43469\/revisions\/43472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}