{"id":46129,"date":"2022-08-22T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46129"},"modified":"2022-08-20T18:17:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T17:17:07","slug":"out-and-about-west-midlands-metro-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46129","title":{"rendered":"Out and About: West Midlands Metro 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are off \u201cOut and About\u201d again today and its another trip to the West Midlands Metro.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46130\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=46130\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-46130\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46130\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46130\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/42-ge-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/42-ge-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/42-ge-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/42-ge-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/42-ge.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The newest tram terminus in the UK is that at Edgbaston Village \u2013 the very end of the Birmingham Westside extension which welcomed its first passengers on Sunday 17th July after delays, mainly caused by the complete withdrawal of the fleet of Urbos3 trams in March owing to bodyside panel cracking. This photo shows 42 \u2013 which was in fact the first public tram to run on this extension \u2013 at the stop showing its standard two platform layout complete with grassed track and stop signs to prevent trams from going any further. (Photograph by Gavin Else, 26th July 2022)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are off \u201cOut and About\u201d again today and its another trip to 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":[100,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46129"}],"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=46129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46131,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46129\/revisions\/46131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}