{"id":58926,"date":"2025-06-19T22:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T21:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58926"},"modified":"2025-06-19T20:28:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T19:28:51","slug":"in-pictures-57-returns-to-service-on-west-midlands-metro-minus-vinyls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58926","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: 57 returns to service on West Midlands Metro minus vinyls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Midlands Metro is down to just two trams carrying adverts after <strong>57<\/strong> returned to service in the plain blue fleet livery following the removal of its last set of vinyls.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>57<\/strong> \u2013 like <strong>Manchester Metrolink 3075<\/strong> which as we\u2019ve already seen has lost its vinyls \u2013 was advertising the National Trust Blossom Watch campaign (applied March 2025), but with this promotion coming to an end the vinyls were stripped. This happened towards the start of June 2025 but the tram wasn\u2019t used for a while until it returned on Tuesday 17<sup>th<\/sup> June.<\/p>\n<p>The two remaining trams with adverts are <strong>36<\/strong> (Aston Villa Adidas store at the Bull Ring) and <strong>58<\/strong> (Birmingham City University).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58927\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/57-sp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58927\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58927\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/57-sp-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/57-sp-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/57-sp-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/57-sp.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-58927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">57 in fleet livery at The Crescent. (Photograph by Shiv Patel, 17th June 2025)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Midlands Metro is down to just two trams carrying adverts after 57 returned to service in the plain blue fleet livery following the removal of its last set of vinyls.<\/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\/58926"}],"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=58926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58928,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58926\/revisions\/58928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}