{"id":48695,"date":"2023-03-13T22:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=48695"},"modified":"2023-03-13T13:12:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T13:12:13","slug":"in-pictures-snowy-photos-from-the-west-midlands-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=48695","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Snowy photos from the West Midlands Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our second snowy pictorial of the evening comes from the West Midlands Metro. It was a similar situation on the system as it was on Manchester Metrolink where despite the amount of snow which had fallen there wasn\u2019t any real disruption to the service. But with the snow on the ground it still made for some good photography as we see in the below images courtesy of Andy Walters.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48696\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=48696\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-48696\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48696\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48696\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1.34-aw-550x312.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">34 leaves Bradley Lane behind as it heads towards Birmingham in this image. The tram was being used on driver training with a significant amount taking place recently to add to the pool of available drivers.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_48697\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=48697\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-48697\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48697\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48697\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2.34-aw-550x358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Its 34 again on driver training in this shot.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_48698\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=48698\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-48698\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48698\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48698\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/3.37-aw-550x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There seems to be a photoshoot of sorts going on with the group of young girls on the left but we\u2019re more interested in 37 which is calling at Dartmouth Street on the right with a service to Edgbaston Village. (Photographs x3 by Andy Walters, 9th March 2023)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_48699\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=48699\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-48699\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48699\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48699\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/4.36-aw-550x306.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A day later and we see 36 dashing through the snow.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_48700\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=48700\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-48700\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48700\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48700\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/5.40-aw-550x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We think this is 40 but as we\u2019ve said before the shape of the Urbos trams is such that where the number is carried the snow always seems to congregate!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_48701\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=48701\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-48701\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48701\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48701\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/6.39-aw-550x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">39 pulls away the stop on its way to Wolverhampton St George\u2019s. (Photographs x3 by Andy Walters, 10th March 2023)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our second snowy pictorial of the evening comes from the West Midlands Metro. It was a similar situation on the system as it was on Manchester Metrolink where despite the amount of snow which had fallen there wasn\u2019t any real &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=48695\">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\/48695"}],"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=48695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48702,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48695\/revisions\/48702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}