{"id":50668,"date":"2023-08-14T18:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50668"},"modified":"2023-08-13T11:42:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T10:42:34","slug":"out-and-about-the-sun-shines-on-the-west-midlands-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50668","title":{"rendered":"Out and About: The sun shines on the West Midlands Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue skies and blue trams on the West Midlands Metro are the subject of this latest edition of \u201cOut and About\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50669\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=50669\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50669\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50669\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50669\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/1.57-aw-550x310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early June 2023 saw much of the UK enjoy nice, sunny and warm weather and Birmingham was no different (looking back at the start of August after a very wet July it seems hard to recall though!). At Library the highest numbered tram in service on the West Midlands Metro at that time, 57, was seen under bright blue skies as it pulls into the stop bound for Wolverhampton St George\u2019s.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_50670\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=50670\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50670\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50670\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50670\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2.57-aw-550x330.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We are then at Edgbaston Village where 57 pauses between journeys along the tramway. (Both Photographs by Andy Walters, 9th June 2023)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue skies and blue trams on the West Midlands Metro are the subject of this latest edition of \u201cOut and About\u201d.<\/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\/50668"}],"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=50668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50671,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50668\/revisions\/50671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}