{"id":48664,"date":"2023-03-15T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=48664"},"modified":"2023-03-15T19:48:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T19:48:27","slug":"metrocar-4001-to-be-preserved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=48664","title":{"rendered":"Metrocar 4001 to be preserved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been confirmed that the first Metrocar is to be preserved at the Stephenson Railway Museum. In a way this will be a homecoming for <strong>4001<\/strong> as the museum is located where the original Tyne and Wear Metro test track was.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>4001<\/strong> was one of two prototypes (along with <strong>4002<\/strong>) built for the Tyne and Wear Metro network in 1975. The two underwent extensive testing on a 1.5 mile test track from 1975 before they were transferred onto the full network. The test track closed in 1980 with North Tyneside Council acquiring the site in 1982, over the years it has been developed with the first passenger trains running on the line in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Now <strong>4001<\/strong> will return to where it all began for it in Tyne and Wear with it being put on static display at a point in the future. The train hasn\u2019t run for a while on the Metro but has not yet officially been withdrawn although the chances of it running again seem to be remote. It retains its special 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary livery which includes snapshots of the main Metro liveries over its history.<\/p>\n<p>Details of when it will move from Gosforth Depot have yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48665\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=48665\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-48665\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48665\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48665\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/4001-th-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/4001-th-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/4001-th-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/4001-th-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/4001-th.jpg 1282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">4001 is seen in service at Pelaw carrying the yellow and white livery that is probably most associated with the Metrocars. Whether it receives a repaint into this or retains its special colour scheme remains to be seen. (Photograph by Trevor Hall, 29th August 2016)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been confirmed that the first Metrocar is to be preserved at the Stephenson Railway Museum. In a way this will be a homecoming for 4001 as the museum is located where the original Tyne and Wear Metro test &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=48664\">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":[67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48664"}],"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=48664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48666,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48664\/revisions\/48666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}