{"id":61127,"date":"2025-12-05T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61127"},"modified":"2025-11-30T08:53:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T08:53:28","slug":"picture-in-time-midland-metro-02-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61127","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Midland Metro 02"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next topic of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d sees us go with a more modern theme as we view pictures from one of our light rail system \u2013 the Midland Metro. Pictures will be featured of the original T69 trams.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And we start with the second numbered of those T69s, <strong>02<\/strong>, with a shot of it below taken at Jewellery Quarter on 22<sup>nd<\/sup> April 2004. By this time the Midland Metro network was almost five years old, with the first passenger services having launched on 30<sup>th<\/sup> May 1999.<\/p>\n<p>When it opened the service was run by a fleet of 16 T69 trams which had been built in Italy by Ansaldo Breda. At the time of their construction fully low-floor trams were not readily available and so they only had 60% low floor space with the remainder requiring passengers to climb a couple of steps to access. Although the overall capacity of the trams was lower than the CAF replacements (156 v 210), the T69s actually have two more seats. All were withdrawn with <strong>02<\/strong> the second to run its last in December 2009. It was subsequently moved for storage at Long Marston in October 2014 and has now been scrapped.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61128\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/02-gp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61128\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61128\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/02-gp-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/02-gp-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/02-gp-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/02-gp.jpg 1147w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Gareth Prior, 22nd April 2004<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next topic of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d sees us go with a more modern theme as we view pictures from one of our light rail system \u2013 the Midland Metro. Pictures will be featured of the original T69 trams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61127"}],"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=61127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61129,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61127\/revisions\/61129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}