{"id":45849,"date":"2022-07-23T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45849"},"modified":"2022-07-22T22:20:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T21:20:47","slug":"modern-preserved-tram-for-the-scrapman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45849","title":{"rendered":"Modern preserved tram for the scrapman?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"><span class=\"css-901oao\">When the fleet of Midland Metro T69s were sold at e-auction in 2018, several examples were saved including one which was due to preserved by Birmingham Museums. But now after four years of storage at Long Marston it appears that <strong>11<\/strong>, still in its Birmingham Corporation inspired livery, is about to be scrapped as it has been seen on a low loader close to Sims Metal UK in Newport \u2013 a location well known for the scrapping of UK rail vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"><span class=\"css-901oao\">Presuming that the tram being seen on a low loader \u2013 operated by Reid Freight \u2013 so close to Sims Metal means what it appears to mean, its not clear what has changed in the apparent preserved status of 11. It was announced as being preserved with much fan-fare at the time of the e-auction with it being selected mainly because it carried the name Teresa Stewart, who was the first (and to date only) female leader of Birmingham City Council.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"><span class=\"css-901oao\">It was due to be preserved by Birmingham Museums but as they had no space at the time it was sent to Long Marston for storage, arriving in Warwickshire on 8<sup>th<\/sup> March 2016. And there it has remained for the past six years \u2013 until now it would appear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"><span class=\"css-901oao\">There were\/are three other Midland Metro T69s at Long Marston: <strong>07<\/strong>, <strong>10<\/strong> and <strong>16<\/strong>. Of these 10 was recently treated to a British Transport Police repaint for Rail Live whilst <strong>16<\/strong> was still believed to be owned by West Midlands Metro and <strong>07<\/strong> was owned by UK Tram for test purposes. The status of these three is unknown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"><span class=\"css-901oao\">Could this be the undignified end of the T69?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the fleet of Midland Metro T69s were sold at e-auction in 2018, several examples were saved including one which was due to preserved by Birmingham Museums. But now after four years of storage at Long Marston it appears that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45849\">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\/45849"}],"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=45849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45850,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45849\/revisions\/45850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}