{"id":56725,"date":"2025-01-05T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56725"},"modified":"2024-12-22T19:50:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T19:50:57","slug":"out-and-about-tyne-and-wear-metro-on-test-december-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56725","title":{"rendered":"Out and About: Tyne and Wear Metro \u2013 On Test December 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another edition of \u201cOut and About\u201d heads off to the Tyne and Wear Metro.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56726\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/555003-js.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56726\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56726\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/555003-js-550x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/555003-js-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/555003-js-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/555003-js.jpg 1284w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Testing and driver training of the new Stadler Tyne and Wear Metro trains continued for much of 2024 in preparation for the introduction of the units into service. We capture one of the trains in this picture during one of these runs as 555 003 pauses at South Gosforth \u2013 complete with \u201cI\u2019m being tested\u201d signs in the windows. (Photograph by Jim Smythe, 2nd December 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another edition of \u201cOut and About\u201d heads off to the Tyne and Wear Metro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100,67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56725"}],"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=56725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56727,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56725\/revisions\/56727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}