{"id":58409,"date":"2025-05-09T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58409"},"modified":"2025-05-09T19:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T18:45:26","slug":"more-overhead-issues-for-west-midlands-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58409","title":{"rendered":"More overhead issues for West Midlands Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trams didn\u2019t run on the West Midlands Metro for much of Friday 9<sup>th<\/sup> May 2025 because of issues with the overhead lines. The problem was first reported at the very start of service with trams not able to start entering service until early afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The exact cause of the issue is not known, or even where the issue was, but it meant that for the second time in a few weeks there was major disruption on the network for similar reasons.<\/p>\n<p>This time it was the complete line between Edgbaston Village and Wolverhampton Station which was suspended. First reports on X came through just after 0500, with the announcement that trams were leaving depot to enter service being at around 1415.<\/p>\n<p>The well-used disruption related ticket acceptance arrangements were again put into action. This saw tram tickets able to be used on West Midlands Railway and National Express West Midlands bus services between Birmingham and Wolverhampton and points in between.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trams didn\u2019t run on the West Midlands Metro for much of Friday 9th May 2025 because of issues with the overhead lines. The problem was first reported at the very start of service with trams not able to start entering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58409\">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\/58409"}],"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=58409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58410,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58409\/revisions\/58410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}