{"id":64707,"date":"2026-09-22T20:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T19:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64707"},"modified":"2026-09-22T15:32:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T14:32:55","slug":"in-pictures-west-midlands-metro-52-back-in-fleet-livery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64707","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: West Midlands Metro 52 back in fleet livery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>West Midlands Metro Urbos100 52<\/strong> is running in standard fleet livery again after its long-standing advert for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra was removed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>52 had been carrying this advert since July 2025, but now a few weeks after the CBSO\u2019s conductor performer on a tram the partnership between the two organisations seems to have taken a change of direction with the vinyls removed.<\/p>\n<p>This was the second advert that the CSBO have had on West Midlands Metro. <strong>45<\/strong> carried a yellow based design from April 2023 to May 2025 before there was a two month gap until <strong>52<\/strong> received a black based design in July 2025.<\/p>\n<p>This has been the only time that <strong>52<\/strong> has carried an advert.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_64708\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/52-sp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64708\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64708\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/52-sp-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/52-sp-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/52-sp-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/52-sp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-64708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">52 gets ready to depart from Wolverhampton St George\u2019s with it being back in fleet livery again. (Photograph by Shiv Patel, 18th September 2026)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Midlands Metro Urbos100 52 is running in standard fleet livery again after its long-standing advert for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra was removed.<\/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\/64707"}],"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=64707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64709,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64707\/revisions\/64709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}