{"id":49482,"date":"2023-05-15T22:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T21:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49482"},"modified":"2023-05-15T12:54:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T11:54:43","slug":"another-repaired-tram-returns-to-service-on-the-west-midlands-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49482","title":{"rendered":"Another repaired tram returns to service on the West Midlands Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its getting hard to keep up with what is and isn\u2019t back in service, delivered, commissioned, testing and just plain old stored on the West Midlands Metro! (As you\u2019ll tell from some of our articles recently!) After the first week of May saw two repaired Urbos3 return to service (<strong>26<\/strong> and <strong>29<\/strong>) we can now report that another of the Dudley visitors has been used again.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That latest tram is <strong>24<\/strong> which was first seen back in service on Friday 12<sup>th<\/sup> May 2023. <strong>24<\/strong> had headed to the Very Light Rail Innovation Centre in Dudley in January 2023 with it returning to Wednesbury in March 2023 after its repairs were completed. With further work and commissioning then taking place at the West Midlands Metro depot the tram was prepared for service and allocated to service on 12<sup>th<\/sup> May.<\/p>\n<p>Of the trams which have been to Dudley four have now returned to service. These have been <strong>17<\/strong>, <strong>24<\/strong>, <strong>26<\/strong> and <strong>29<\/strong>. The only other two to have returned are <strong>20<\/strong> (back 11<sup>th<\/sup> April 2023) and <strong>27<\/strong> (back January 2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its getting hard to keep up with what is and isn\u2019t back in service, delivered, commissioned, testing and just plain old stored on the West Midlands Metro! (As you\u2019ll tell from some of our articles recently!) After the first week &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49482\">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\/49482"}],"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=49482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49483,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49482\/revisions\/49483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}