{"id":58312,"date":"2025-05-07T22:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T21:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58312"},"modified":"2025-05-07T18:30:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:30:35","slug":"more-tram-moves-between-wednesbury-and-dudley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58312","title":{"rendered":"More tram moves between Wednesbury and Dudley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first couple of days of May have once again seen trams being moved between West Midlands Metro depot at Wednesbury and the Very Light Rail Innovation Centre in Dudley with another one heading that way before one came back. The two moves took place on Thursday 1<sup>st<\/sup> and Friday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> May 2025.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As has been the case in most recent moves to and from Dudley the tram going there was the first to be moved (a complete opposite to how it was to start with). This was <strong>18<\/strong> \u2013 a tram which had been out on the line as recently as the last full week of April \u2013 which was loaded onto the lorry at Wednesbury on 1<sup>st<\/sup> May and made the relatively short trip across to Dudley.<\/p>\n<p>Having arrived there it was unloaded and before being moved into the workshop, <strong>28<\/strong> was readied to return to Wednesbury. Jasper Carrot \u2013 as its still named \u2013 was loaded the same day although was not able to leave until Friday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> May (partly due to severe delays on the roads in the local area after a lorry hit a bridge). That it duly did and it was back at the depot to be unloaded, and then shunted by fellow Urbos3 <strong>25<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Other trams currently away from Wednesbury include <strong>26<\/strong> and <strong>30<\/strong>, with the former confirmed at Worksop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first couple of days of May have once again seen trams being moved between West Midlands Metro depot at Wednesbury and the Very Light Rail Innovation Centre in Dudley with another one heading that way before one came back. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58312\">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\/58312"}],"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=58312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58313,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58312\/revisions\/58313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}