{"id":54697,"date":"2024-07-27T22:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54697"},"modified":"2024-07-27T13:31:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T12:31:11","slug":"in-pictures-trams-swap-between-worksop-and-wednesbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54697","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Trams swap between Worksop and Wednesbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday 26<sup>th<\/sup> July was another swap day for West Midlands Metro with <strong>27<\/strong> coming back from Worksop whilst <strong>37<\/strong> left Wednesbury Depot for a second spell of off site storage.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As you will have seen on these pages before, currently limited capacity at the sole West Midlands Metro depot in Wednesbury owing to upgrade works means that a selection of trams (currently five) are being stored off-site at the Harry Needle facility in Worksop. The moves started in August 2023 and since then trams have come and gone, with those at Worksop coming back for maintenance at semi-regular intervals.<\/p>\n<p>The latest set of moves took place on Friday 26<sup>th<\/sup> July and it was the turn of <strong>27<\/strong> to come back to Wednesbury. This tram had departed on 30<sup>th<\/sup> January 2024 and its return keeps to the six month gap which we have seen in most moves.<\/p>\n<p>And with <strong>27<\/strong> coming back it meant a tram needed to go the other way and this time that was the highest numbered of the original batch of CAF trams \u2013 <strong>37<\/strong>. This is not the first time that tram (named Ozzy Osbourne) has been to Worksop either with it being there from 2<sup>nd<\/sup> November 2023 until 3<sup>rd<\/sup> May 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The other trams currently stored at Worksop are <strong>17<\/strong>, <strong>26<\/strong>, <strong>28<\/strong> and <strong>31<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54698\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/27-ws.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54698\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54698\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/27-ws-550x414.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/27-ws-550x414.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/27-ws-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/27-ws.jpg 1265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early morning on 26th July and 27 sits on the low loader awaiting unloading following its return from Worksop. (Photograph by William Snook, 26th July 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday 26th July was another swap day for West Midlands Metro with 27 coming back from Worksop whilst 37 left Wednesbury Depot for a second spell of off site storage.<\/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\/54697"}],"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=54697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54699,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54697\/revisions\/54699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}