{"id":54787,"date":"2024-08-04T08:23:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T07:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54787"},"modified":"2024-08-18T08:22:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T07:22:39","slug":"whats-new-on-british-trams-online-4th-august-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54787","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New on British Trams Online? 4th August 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Double photos from Steven Hughes with visits to Nottingham Express Transit and West Midlands Metro:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/gallery2024\/gallery33.html\">Photos: Nottingham Express Transit &#8211; 13th July 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/gallery2024\/gallery34.html\">Photos: West Midlands Metro &#8211; 17th July 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are updates this week to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/fleets\/blackpoolfleet.html\">Blackpool Tramway<\/a> (photo links), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/fleets\/crich.html\">Crich Tramway Village<\/a> (photo links), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/fleets\/douglas.html\">Douglas Bay Horse Tramway<\/a> (last operated dates), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/fleets\/edinburgh.html\">Edinburgh Trams<\/a> (photo links), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/fleets\/croydon.html\">London Trams<\/a> (<b>2561<\/b> back in service), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/fleets\/manchester.html\">Manchester Metrolink<\/a> (photo links), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/fleets\/mer.html\">Manx Electric Railway<\/a> (last operated dates), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/fleets\/net.html\">Nottingham Express Transit<\/a> (photo links), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/fleets\/sheffield.html\">South Yorkshire Supertram<\/a> (photo links) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/fleets\/midland.html\">West Midlands Metro<\/a> (photo links) Fleet Lists along with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/fleets\/edinburghadvert.html\">Edinburgh Trams<\/a> (photo links and revised advert) Advert List.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54788\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=54788\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54788\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54788\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54788\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/cover24-29-550x310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">During July 2024, a new advert was seen on a tram operating on the West Midlands Metro network when 58 received a wrap for KFC. Identical in design to one also seen on Manchester Metrolink (although not long after West Midlands Metro joined in the one up in Manchester was removed) the tram returned to service with the vinyls in mid-July. Its seen at Wednesbury Parkway with a service bound for Edgbaston Village on 17th July 2024. (Photograph by Andy Walters)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>* Please note the next main site update will be on Sunday 18th August 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Double photos from Steven Hughes with visits to Nottingham Express Transit and 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":[20,22,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54787"}],"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=54787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54863,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54787\/revisions\/54863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}