{"id":52377,"date":"2024-01-15T21:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T21:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=52377"},"modified":"2024-01-15T18:00:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T18:00:24","slug":"in-pictures-52-definitely-enters-service-on-west-midlands-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=52377","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: 52 definitely enters service on West Midlands Metro!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We now have official confirmation that the last of the Urbos100 trams delivered to West Midlands Metro has definitely entered service. <strong>52<\/strong>\u2019s official first day in service was on Friday 12<sup>th<\/sup> January 2024, although it was only used briefly on the day.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We had previously reported that <strong>52<\/strong> had entered service just before Christmas but after our contributors checked with West Midlands Metro it was confirmed that this was not the case and the tram remained stored in the depot yard waiting to be transferred over the commissioning area to the operations department.<\/p>\n<p>The first confirmed entry into service for <strong>52<\/strong> is thus Friday 12<sup>th<\/sup> January 2024. It only ran a single out and back return trip to Birmingham (as a peak time extra) but is now available for further use and should be expected to be seen in service again over the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, <strong>52<\/strong> was delivered on 22<sup>nd<\/sup> November 2023 to Wednesbury Depot and since then had been involved in the standard commissioning process including testing and mileage accumulation.<\/p>\n<p>It is the 21<sup>st<\/sup> of the generation 3 Urbos100 trams to have entered service and this brings an end to the current order of trams. The previously rumoured extra tram said to be compensation for the issues with the earlier CAF trams is now not apparently going to happen with the decision having bee made that this offer would not be taken up.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_52394\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=52394\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52394\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52394\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52394\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1.52-aw-550x310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-52394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">52 sits at Edgbaston Village a few days after its first use in service.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_52395\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=52395\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52395\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52395\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52395\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2.52-aw-550x305.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-52395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From end of the line to the other as we catch up again with 52 at Wolverhampton Railway Station. (Both Photographs by Andy Walters, 14th January 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now have official confirmation that the last of the Urbos100 trams delivered to West Midlands Metro has definitely entered service. 52\u2019s official first day in service was on Friday 12th January 2024, although it was only used briefly on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=52377\">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\/52377"}],"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=52377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52396,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52377\/revisions\/52396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}