{"id":55700,"date":"2024-10-14T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=55700"},"modified":"2024-10-13T10:25:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T09:25:59","slug":"out-and-about-west-midlands-metro-urbos3s-in-action-may-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=55700","title":{"rendered":"Out and About: West Midlands Metro \u2013 Urbos3s in action May 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This \u201cOut and About\u201d goes to the West Midlands Metro again to take a look at a couple of the initial batch of Urbos trams in service.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55701\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1.35-aw.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55701\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55701\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1.35-aw-550x380.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Following the Easter 2024 trackwork which saw a limited service run on the northern section of the West Midlands Metro network only until early May the use of Urbos3 trams was relatively limited. In fact its not thought that until 3rd May that any were used in passenger service. But that change on that day with a couple of the trams allocated to service \u2013 which included 35 as seen here.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_55702\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2.36-aw.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55702\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55702\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2.36-aw-550x404.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The second Urbos3 in service on 3rd May was 36. Its captured on memory card in this photo as it approaches Wednesbury Parkway with a service which is running south to Edgbaston Village. (Both Photographs by Andy Walters, 3rd May 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This \u201cOut and About\u201d goes to the West Midlands Metro again to take a look at a couple of the initial batch of Urbos trams in service.<\/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\/55700"}],"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=55700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55703,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55700\/revisions\/55703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}