{"id":63241,"date":"2026-05-28T20:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63241"},"modified":"2026-05-28T19:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:29:19","slug":"west-midlands-metro-service-cut-in-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63241","title":{"rendered":"West Midlands Metro service cut in two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been major disruption on the West Midlands Metro for over a day with a tram having been left at Dartmouth Street awaiting \u201cspecialist recovery\u201d. West Midlands Metro\u2019s website and social media accounts described it as a broken-down tram.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The disruption was first announced shortly after 2000 on Wednesday 27<sup>th<\/sup> May 2026 and despite initial hopes that the tram would be able to be returned to depot under its own power that hadn\u2019t been possible.<\/p>\n<p>The tram which failed was Urbos100 <strong>43<\/strong> which seems to have suffered a fault with the gearbox\/motor. An attempt was made to tow it back to depot with Urbos3 <strong>18<\/strong> but this wasn\u2019t possible.<\/p>\n<p>It was confirmed on Thursday 28<sup>th<\/sup> May that it would need specialist recovery and that it is hoped this will take place overnight, until then however disruption remains in place.<\/p>\n<p>During the disruption trams have been running:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wolverhampton Station\/St Georges to Black Lake<\/li>\n<li>West Bromwich Central to Millennium Point\/Edgbaston Village<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No services ran between Black Lake and West Bromwich Central.<\/p>\n<p>Ticket acceptance was put in place on National Express service 79 as well as West Midlands Railway services between Wolverhampton and Birmingham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been major disruption on the West Midlands Metro for over a day with a tram having been left at Dartmouth Street awaiting \u201cspecialist recovery\u201d. West Midlands Metro\u2019s website and social media accounts described it as a broken-down tram.<\/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\/63241"}],"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=63241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63242,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63241\/revisions\/63242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}