{"id":54546,"date":"2024-07-15T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54546"},"modified":"2024-07-14T08:29:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T07:29:20","slug":"out-and-about-west-midlands-metro-march-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54546","title":{"rendered":"Out and About: West Midlands Metro \u2013 March 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We go \u201cOut and About\u201d again with the West Midlands Metro being the featured location this time around.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54547\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1.39-aw.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54547\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54547\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1.39-aw-550x314.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the time of this visit there was a lot of work ongoing at some of the stops, including in preparation for the potential introduction of ticket machines. At West Bromwich Central we see 39 arriving with a service to central Birmingham and then Edgbaston Village.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_54548\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2.40-aw.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54548\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54548\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2.40-aw-550x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Add one to the previous tram and you get 40 which we see here arriving at West Bromwich Central. It pulls into the stop and claims its going to Wolverhampton Station but is in fact heading the other way to Edgbaston Village. (Both Photographs by Andy Walters, 14th March 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We go \u201cOut and About\u201d again with the West Midlands Metro being the featured location this time around.<\/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\/54546"}],"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=54546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54549,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54546\/revisions\/54549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}