{"id":43647,"date":"2022-02-06T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43647"},"modified":"2022-02-05T14:31:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T14:31:48","slug":"out-and-about-another-new-tram-in-service-on-the-west-midlands-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43647","title":{"rendered":"Out and About: Another new tram in service on the West Midlands Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its time for another edition of \u201cOut and About\u201d and the system for this latest foray into some topical images of trams in the British Isles is the West Midlands Metro.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43648\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43648\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43648\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43648\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43648\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1.42-aw-550x253.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fourth of the eight original Urbos 100 trams to enter service was 42 which carried its first passengers on Saturday 19th December. Just a couple of weeks later and we catch up with the tram again at Wolverhampton St George\u2019s. Its just arrived with a service from Birmingham and now waits ahead of returning south.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_43649\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43649\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43649\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43649\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43649\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2.42-aw-550x284.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is Wednesbury Great Western Street where the tram pauses.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_43650\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43650\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43650\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43650\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43650\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/3.42-aw-550x253.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">They may have very small external numbers but there is no mistaking this is the inside of 42! (All Photographs by Andy Walters, 3rd January 2022)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its time for another edition of \u201cOut and About\u201d and the system for this latest foray into some topical images of trams in the British Isles is 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":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43647"}],"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=43647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43651,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43647\/revisions\/43651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}