{"id":49742,"date":"2023-05-29T18:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49742"},"modified":"2023-05-28T08:31:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T07:31:17","slug":"out-and-about-a-short-visit-to-the-tyne-and-wear-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49742","title":{"rendered":"Out and About: A short visit to the Tyne and Wear Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its time for \u201cOut and About\u201d again and in this edition we are going to the northeast where we take a look at the Tyne and Wear Metro.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_49743\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=49743\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49743\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49743\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49743\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/4084-th-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/4084-th-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/4084-th-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/4084-th-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/4084-th.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original fleet of Metrocars have been in the news a lot during 2023 with their increasing unreliability leading to the removal of peak time extras to try and offer a more consistent service. One unit which has been available recently has been 4084 which we see here approaching Northumberland Park. When the much anticipated Newcastle-Blyth-Ashington railway passenger service starts in 2024 this station will become an interchange between train and Metro. (Photograph by Trevor Hall, 7th March 2023)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its time for \u201cOut and About\u201d again and in this edition we are going to the northeast where we take a look at the Tyne and Wear Metro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100,67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49742"}],"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=49742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49744,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49742\/revisions\/49744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}