{"id":47763,"date":"2022-12-24T22:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T22:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=47763"},"modified":"2022-12-23T16:20:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T16:20:42","slug":"in-pictures-father-christmas-the-tram-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=47763","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Father Christmas the tram driver!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019d think that in the last week or so before Christmas that Father Christmas would be quite busy getting ready for the big day \u2013 but he still had time to put in a shift driving on the West Midlands Metro on Saturday 17<sup>th<\/sup> December!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t worry, things haven\u2019t got so tough for Santa that he needs to take on a second job to make ends meet \u2013 it was Ian, one of West Midlands Metro\u2019s long-serving drivers, who added some festive cheer to the network!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47764\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=47764\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47764\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47764\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47764\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1.santa-aw-550x310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa puts his head through the cab window of 34 at Corporation Street.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_47765\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=47765\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47765\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47765\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47765\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2.santa-aw-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We suspect the cab of an Urbos3 is slightly more advanced than the sleigh he is used to!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_47766\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=47766\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47766\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47766\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47766\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3.santa-aw-550x408.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"408\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa poses for photos alongside 34 at Wednesbury Great Western Street.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_47767\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=47767\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47767\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47767\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47767\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/4.santa-aw-413x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"550\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">He then had a go at driving an Urbos100. Here is seen with 38.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_47768\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=47768\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47768\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47768\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/5.santa-aw-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A friendly wave from Santa! (All Photographs by Andy Walters, 17th December 2022)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019d think that in the last week or so before Christmas that Father Christmas would be quite busy getting ready for the big day \u2013 but he still had time to put in a shift driving on the West Midlands &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=47763\">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\/47763"}],"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=47763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47785,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47763\/revisions\/47785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}