{"id":55008,"date":"2024-08-24T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=55008"},"modified":"2024-08-27T19:50:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T18:50:25","slug":"west-midlands-metro-44-back-to-fleet-livery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=55008","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: West Midlands Metro 44 back to fleet livery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article updated 27th August with photo added.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The West Midlands Metro fleet has taken one further step towards having a more uniform look as another of the Urbos 100 trams which were carrying adverts is now back in full fleet livery. Coming just a couple of days after 58<\/strong> went back to blue, 44<\/strong> is now also running around in the standard fleet colours.<\/p>\n

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44<\/strong> had received an advert for The National Trust and their Blossom Watch campaign in March 2024. As with the KFC advert we saw come off a few days previous, this was an advert which had also been seen on a tram in Manchester Metrolink. But whereas the one in Manchester was rapidly taken off \u2013 lasting only March to May 2024 \u2013 the vinyls on 44<\/strong> had remained firmly in place, until now that is!<\/p>\n

Mid-August saw the adverts taken off the tram and it was soon back in service in the standard fleet livery.<\/p>\n

It now just leaves 45<\/strong> in an advert \u2013 and this tram is likely to remain with its City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra vinyls for a while yet as it was announced earlier this summer that the partnership between the two organisations had been extended for a further 12 months.<\/p>\n

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44 back in full fleet livery after the removal of its adverts for The National Trust. This was West Bromwich Central. (Photograph by Michael Morton, 22nd August 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Article updated 27th August with photo added. The West Midlands Metro fleet has taken one further step towards having a more uniform look as another of the Urbos 100 trams which were carrying adverts is now back in full fleet … Continue reading →<\/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\/55008"}],"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=55008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55088,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55008\/revisions\/55088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}