{"id":50612,"date":"2023-08-09T21:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50612"},"modified":"2023-08-09T19:36:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T18:36:21","slug":"in-pictures-west-midlands-metro-58-delivered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50612","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: West Midlands Metro 58 delivered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new highest numbered tram in town after the delivery of West Midlands Metro\u2019s Urbos100 <strong>58<\/strong> to Wednesbury Depot on Wednesday 9<sup>th<\/sup> August 2023. This leaves just two of the initial order of 21 trams to turn up, although there is the \u201cextra\u201d 22<sup>nd<\/sup> tram to also come, no. <strong>59<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>58<\/strong> was delivered to the depot around lunchtime (in the pretty standard arrival slot for the majority of the trams arriving directly at the depot rather than those on Bilston Road). As with all previous Urbos100s the tram was built by CAF at their plant in Zaragoza, Spain and was then transported across via Bristol Docks and then driven the remainder to the West Midlands Metro.<\/p>\n<p>The delivery of <strong>58<\/strong> is the first new tram to arrive since <strong>54<\/strong> on 5<sup>th<\/sup> July 2023. It also leaves two more of the initial order of trams (<strong>52<\/strong> and <strong>55<\/strong>) to come plus <strong>59<\/strong> (the extra one). 17 of the Urbos100s have also run in service since arrival <strong>38<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>51<\/strong>, <strong>53<\/strong>, <strong>56<\/strong> and <strong>57<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50614\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=50614\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50614\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50614\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50614\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/1.58-aw-550x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The local constabulary give directions to the lorry driver before 58 is delivered to the depot.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_50615\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=50615\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50615\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50615\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50615\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2.58-aw-550x303.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">58 is manoeuvred into the depot. (Both Photographs by Andy Walters, 9th August 2023)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new highest numbered tram in town after the delivery of West Midlands Metro\u2019s Urbos100 58 to Wednesbury Depot on Wednesday 9th August 2023. This leaves just two of the initial order of 21 trams to turn up, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50612\">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\/50612"}],"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=50612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50616,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50612\/revisions\/50616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}