{"id":62452,"date":"2026-03-29T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=62452"},"modified":"2026-04-04T19:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:04:24","slug":"whats-new-on-british-trams-online-29th-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=62452","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New on British Trams Online? 29th March 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photos this week come from the West Midlands Metro:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/gallery2026\/gallery17.html\">Photos: West Midlands Metro &#8211; 25th March 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week there are updates this week to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/fleets\/blackpoolfleet.html\">Blackpool Tramway<\/a> (tram availability and photo links), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/fleets\/edinburgh.html\">Edinburgh Trams<\/a> (photo links), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/fleets\/greatorme.html\">Great Orme Tramway<\/a> (last operating date), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/fleets\/manchester.html\">Manchester Metrolink<\/a> (new advert and photo links), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/fleets\/crich.html\">National Tramway Museum<\/a> (last operated dates and photo links), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/fleets\/tyne.html\">Tyne and Wear Metro<\/a> (new train into service) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/fleets\/midland.html\">West Midlands Metro<\/a> (new advert, advert removed, tram back into service and photo links) Fleet Lists. There are also updates to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/fleets\/manchesteradvert.html\">Manchester Metrolink<\/a> (new advert and photo links) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/fleets\/midlandadvert.html\">West Midlands Metro<\/a> (advert removed, new advert and photo links) Advert Lists.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62453\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cover26-12.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62453\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62453\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cover26-12-550x310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cover26-12-550x310.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cover26-12-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cover26-12.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The National Tramway Museum reopened for another season on Saturday 14th March 2026 and with sunny weather one of the trams out on that opening day was London County Council 106 &#8211; a tram which has also seen extensive use since. In this shot we see 106 passing the depot entrance on its way back down to Town End after heading up the line. (Photograph by Steven Hughes)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos this week come from the West Midlands Metro:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62452"}],"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=62452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62454,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62452\/revisions\/62454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}