{"id":58556,"date":"2025-05-27T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58556"},"modified":"2025-05-27T19:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T18:08:53","slug":"west-midlands-metro-30-returns-from-dudley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58556","title":{"rendered":"West Midlands Metro 30 returns from Dudley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great West Midlands Metro tram swap has continued with <strong>30<\/strong> coming back from Dudley with it being replaced by another with the repairs on the Urbos3 trams ongoing at the Very Light Rail Innovation Centre.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>30<\/strong> was on its second trip to Dudley having previously been there in 2023 for the major bodyside cracking repairs as many of its fellow Urbos3 trams underwent. This time around it was transported there by lorry on 10<sup>th<\/sup> April 2025 and returned to Wednesbury Depot during the week of 19<sup>th<\/sup> May 2025 (it was still there during the BCIMO Family Fun Day on 17<sup>th<\/sup> May).<\/p>\n<p><strong>18<\/strong> remains in situ at Dudley still undergoing work whilst another tram is now believed to have joined it, although its not clear which tram that is at the moment. Further examples are expected to follow in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>21<\/strong>, <strong>28<\/strong> and <strong>36<\/strong> have all recently returned to service after lengthy periods out of use.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58557\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1830-aw.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58557\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58557\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1830-aw-550x334.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-58557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">During the Family Fun Day there was a chance to see the workshop where the repairs are being completed. This image shows 18 closest to the camera and 30 on the far side at various stages of work. (Photograph by Andy Walters, 17th May 2025)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great West Midlands Metro tram swap has continued with 30 coming back from Dudley with it being replaced by another with the repairs on the Urbos3 trams ongoing at the Very Light Rail Innovation Centre.<\/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\/58556"}],"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=58556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58627,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58556\/revisions\/58627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}