{"id":7911,"date":"2014-06-10T19:22:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T18:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=7911"},"modified":"2014-06-10T19:22:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T18:22:09","slug":"in-picture-midland-metro-urbos3-on-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=7911","title":{"rendered":"In Picture: Midland Metro Urbos3 on test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Testing and driver training of the Midland Metro CAF built Urbos 3 trams has stepped up a notch recently with evening runs of the trams a regular occurrence. One such occasion was on the evening of 5th June when Mike Ballinger was out with his camera and caught <strong>19<\/strong> at Bilston.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->As well as these test\/training runs there will be a chance for members of the public to take a closer look at one of the trams again, this time at Wolverhampton St George\u2019s. One of the Urbos 3\u2019s will be at the terminus on Saturday 14th June between 0900 and 1500 with Metro and Centro staff on hand to answer any questions from the public. You may remember that this is the second time that one of the trams has been open to the public following on from <strong>20<\/strong>\u2019s visit to Birmingham Snow Hill on 5th April.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7912\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=7912\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7912\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7912\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7912\" title=\"19-mb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/19-mb-550x346.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/19-mb-550x346.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/19-mb-1024x644.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/19-mb.jpg 1244w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">19 heads away from Bilston Central back towards Wednesbury on 5th June with a test\/training run. (Photo: Mike Ballinger)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testing and driver training of the Midland Metro CAF built Urbos 3 trams has stepped up a notch recently with evening runs of the trams a regular occurrence. One such occasion was on the evening of 5th June when Mike &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=7911\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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\/7911"}],"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=7911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7914,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions\/7914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}