{"id":56455,"date":"2024-12-16T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T22:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56455"},"modified":"2024-12-16T13:02:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T13:02:17","slug":"in-pictures-west-midlands-metro-35-back-in-regular-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56455","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: West Midlands Metro 35 back in regular use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a fleet of 42 trams \u2013 albeit with several either out of service long-term or away for off-site storage \u2013 there are some vehicles on the West Midlands Metro network which don\u2019t get seen in service on a regular basis. One of those recently has been <strong>35<\/strong> but that has recently started to see more use in service once again.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Having missed several months \u2013 despite only being returned from repairs at Dudley this February \u2013 <strong>35<\/strong> was back in use, initially on driver training, during mid-November. This tends to be part of the road to return for trams, with it being used on training for a few weeks before its handed over to normal service again.<\/p>\n<p>It is now back in regular use once more and when noted in service earlier this month it was seen as having 634,517km on the clock.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56456\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/35-aw.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56456\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56456\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/35-aw-550x303.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">35 at The Royal, now back in service once again. (Photograph by Andy Walters, 11th December 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a fleet of 42 trams \u2013 albeit with several either out of service long-term or away for off-site storage \u2013 there are some vehicles on the West Midlands Metro network which don\u2019t get seen in service on a regular &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56455\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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\/56455"}],"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=56455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56457,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56455\/revisions\/56457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}