{"id":51112,"date":"2023-09-25T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=51112"},"modified":"2023-09-19T22:12:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T21:12:24","slug":"out-and-about-west-midlands-metro-urbos3s-in-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=51112","title":{"rendered":"Out and About: West Midlands Metro \u2013 Urbos3s in service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We go \u201cOut and About\u201d again today and the location this time around is the West Midlands Metro.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51113\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=51113\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51113\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51113\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51113\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1.20-aw-550x310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The use of the Urbos3 during the summer has been a little erratic with some days seeing none at all in service. But 3rd July 2023 did see some in operation including 20. This is one of the trams which had been to Dudley for repairs and had been back since April after these were completed.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_51114\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=51114\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51114\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51114\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51114\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2.21-aw-550x310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two days later at Bilston Central and we see 21 out on test\/driver training. (Both Photographs by Andy Walters)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We go \u201cOut and About\u201d again today and the location this time around is the West Midlands Metro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51112"}],"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=51112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51115,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51112\/revisions\/51115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}