{"id":55164,"date":"2024-09-02T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=55164"},"modified":"2024-09-01T10:25:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T09:25:18","slug":"out-and-about-west-midlands-metro-in-birmingham-city-centre-april-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=55164","title":{"rendered":"Out and About: West Midlands Metro in Birmingham City Centre \u2013 April 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are with another \u201cOut and About\u201d with Birmingham City Centre the location this time out.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55165\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1.44-kj.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55165\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55165\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1.44-kj-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1.44-kj-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1.44-kj-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1.44-kj.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">During March 2024, Urbos100 tram 44 received a vinyl wrap advert for the National Trust\u2019s Blossom Watch. Whilst keeping the fleet livery at the ends the rest of the tram is now buried in vinyls. The tram is on Corporation Street with a service to Edgbaston Village.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_55166\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2.54-kj.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55166\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55166\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2.54-kj-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2.54-kj-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2.54-kj-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2.54-kj.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Its not that unusual for trams on the West Midlands Metro to be displaying the wrong destination (in completely the wrong direction) and so it was when 54 was caught on camera in Corporation Street. The tram is not going to Edgbaston Village but is in fact travelling in the opposite direction to Wolverhampton Railway Station. (Both Photographs by Ken Jones, 15th April 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are with another \u201cOut and About\u201d with Birmingham City Centre the location this time out.<\/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\/55164"}],"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=55164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55167,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55164\/revisions\/55167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}