{"id":57978,"date":"2025-04-07T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=57978"},"modified":"2025-04-06T11:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T10:07:15","slug":"older-and-new-west-midlands-metro-handsworth-booth-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=57978","title":{"rendered":"Old(er) and New \u2013 West Midlands Metro: Handsworth Booth Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We go to the West Midlands Metro one more time for this edition of \u201cOld(er) and New\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57979\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/5a.14-gp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57979\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-57979\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/5a.14-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/5a.14-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/5a.14-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/5a.14-gp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this edition we are at Handsworth Booth Street with this first image depicting T69 14 on 11th March 2009 as it operates a service going to Birmingham Snow Hill. Delivered on 11th November 1998 to Wednesbury Depot (one of two to turn up on that day), 14 would remain in service until June 2014 when it was withdrawn. It wasn\u2019t stored at the depot for long as it was that same month that it moved on to Long Marston for storage. Like so many other T69s it was later sold on for scrap. Handsworth Booth Street is located on the original Midland Metro line, just to the south of The Hawthorns.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_57980\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/5b.29-gp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57980\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-57980\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/5b.29-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/5b.29-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/5b.29-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/5b.29-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Its only nine years later when we go back to Handsworth Booth Street and see Urbos3 29 arriving at the stop \u2013 also on its way to Birmingham. The date is 6th July 2018 and the tram was still in the original CAF fleet livery (also seen a few examples of the T69s and styled as the Network West Midlands livery when first applied). (Both Photographs by Gareth Prior)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We go to the West Midlands Metro one more time for this edition of \u201cOld(er) and New\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[113,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57978"}],"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=57978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57981,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57978\/revisions\/57981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}