{"id":57015,"date":"2025-01-27T22:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T22:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=57015"},"modified":"2025-01-27T12:56:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T12:56:54","slug":"in-pictures-west-midlands-metro-in-the-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=57015","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: West Midlands Metro in the wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The opening few weeks of 2025 have seemingly seen the West Midlands Metro being used for target practice by various other road vehicles with a number of collisions having been reported. Most of these have been relatively minor but still cause service disruption and then the inevitable tram repairs.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Two trams which have recently been involved in incidents have been <strong>54<\/strong> and <strong>56<\/strong>. The collision which involved <strong>56<\/strong> is not known but it has recently been seen sporting a new side panel. This is one of the named trams (Amman Ahmed in recognition of a local volunteer who won the 50for50WM contest) and so it is currently without this name on one corner.<\/p>\n<p>For <strong>54<\/strong> its collision saw a truck involved and led to the tram getting a scratch on its bodywork all the way from the end door to just short of the far end of the tram. Obviously not a major collision but still another issue caused by the interactions the trams have with other road users.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57016\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/56-aw.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57016\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-57016\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/56-aw-550x387.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">56 sporting its new panel at Pipers Row on the way to Wolverhampton Station. (Photograph by Andy Walters)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opening few weeks of 2025 have seemingly seen the West Midlands Metro being used for target practice by various other road vehicles with a number of collisions having been reported. Most of these have been relatively minor but still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=57015\">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\/57015"}],"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=57015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57017,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57015\/revisions\/57017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}