{"id":63084,"date":"2026-05-18T18:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63084"},"modified":"2026-05-17T08:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:36:13","slug":"older-and-new-west-midlands-metro-wednesbury-great-western-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63084","title":{"rendered":"Old(er) and New \u2013 West Midlands Metro: Wednesbury Great Western Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

Its \u201cOld(er) and New\u201d time again as we take a look at the same location on the West Midlands Metro several years apart with one photo featuring a T69 and the other a CAF Urbos tram.<\/p>\n

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In this first photo \u2013 taken 11th March 2009 \u2013 we see T69 07 calling at Wednesbury Great Western Street with a service for Wolverhampton St George\u2019s. 07 was one of the most elusive T69s as it spent nine years out of service between 1999 and 2008 after colliding with a lorry and then being used to keep its sisters on the tracks. When it did return in 2008 it was sporting this magenta and silver \u201cNetwork West Midlands\u201d livery. It would then run until withdrawal in September 2014. Wednesbury Great Western Street is located adjacent to the tram depot, although at this time only the fence beyond 07 is an indication of that.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A change of type of tram when we return to the same stop on 21st March 2025 as Urbos3 23 calls \u2013 it may be heading to Wolverhampton again, but this time it\u2019s the Station that will be its ultimate destination as opposed to St George\u2019s. The fence between stop and depot complex is seen beyond the tram again and this time we can see the West Midlands Metro Training Academy, which was officially opened in July 2021. (Both Photographs by Gareth Prior)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Its \u201cOld(er) and New\u201d time again as we take a look at the same location on the West Midlands Metro several years apart with one photo featuring a T69 and the other a CAF Urbos tram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[113,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63084"}],"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=63084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63087,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63084\/revisions\/63087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}