{"id":50530,"date":"2023-08-02T21:00:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T20:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50530"},"modified":"2023-08-02T19:34:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T18:34:57","slug":"more-trams-for-repairs-at-dudley-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50530","title":{"rendered":"More trams for repairs at Dudley confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we\u2019ve seen in recent weeks there has been a changing of the trams in Dudley as repairs of the West Midlands Metro Urbos3s continues, but we hadn\u2019t had confirmation of which trams were now there, until now! The two latest trams can be confirmed as <strong>33<\/strong> and <strong>35<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The exact day that the trams made the move from Wednesbury across to the Very Light Rail Innovation Centre in Dudley isn\u2019t known (the movement of West Midlands Metro trams has probably become such a common sight that no-one necessarily notices when they see one on a lorry now!) but its likely to be late June or early July that they were transported, replacing <strong>25<\/strong> and <strong>30<\/strong> which are back on the West Midlands Metro after their repairs with the former in service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>33<\/strong> and <strong>35<\/strong> are two of the just four Urbos3s which have not run at all since services resumed in June 2022 (the aforementioned <strong>30<\/strong> along with <strong>34<\/strong> the others, this doesn\u2019t necessarily mean all the others are currently operational though) and so their movement to Dudley was probably to be expected and should hopefully see the pair returned to service in the not too distant future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we\u2019ve seen in recent weeks there has been a changing of the trams in Dudley as repairs of the West Midlands Metro Urbos3s continues, but we hadn\u2019t had confirmation of which trams were now there, until now! The two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50530\">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\/50530"}],"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=50530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50531,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50530\/revisions\/50531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}