{"id":61476,"date":"2026-01-04T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61476"},"modified":"2026-01-04T10:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T10:55:15","slug":"out-and-about-west-midlands-metro-december-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61476","title":{"rendered":"Out and About: West Midlands Metro \u2013 December 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We go \u201cOut and About\u201d again and it\u2019s the West Midlands Metro that is the location for this latest outing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61477\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/52-jb.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61477\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61477\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/52-jb-550x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/52-jb-550x450.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/52-jb-768x628.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/52-jb.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">July 2025 saw West Midlands Metro Urbos100 52 receive its first vinyl wrap advertising livery when it became the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra tram. This was the second tram to advertise the CBSO, with both contracts having been part of a partnership between the two organisations. Move forward to Friday 5th December 2025 and the tram and its advert is seen at Corporation Street when working a service from Edgbaston Village to Wolverhampton Station. (Photograph by John Binch, 5th December 2025)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We go \u201cOut and About\u201d again and it\u2019s the West Midlands Metro that is the location for this latest outing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61476"}],"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=61476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61478,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61476\/revisions\/61478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}