{"id":8014,"date":"2014-06-17T20:43:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T19:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=8014"},"modified":"2014-06-17T20:43:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T19:43:34","slug":"so-long-farewell-midland-metro-t69-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=8014","title":{"rendered":"So Long, Farewell Midland Metro T69 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was another historic date for second generation trams in the UK on Tuesday 17th June with Midland Metro T69 <strong>14<\/strong> becoming the first of the class to leave Wednesbury. As rumoured at the weekend <strong>14<\/strong> has left and it is believed it is on its way to Long Marston where testing will take place, although just what this testing will consist of is unclear!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The tram was collected by Allelys and after a loading which took around one hour it left for pastures new at 1827. Earlier in the day <strong>14<\/strong> had been plastered in stickers telling everyone that it is a \u201cTest Tram\u201d and also that its testing is for UK Tram. The partners of UK Tram are also listed on the stickers carried on the upper sides of <strong>14<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Also on 17th June <strong>03<\/strong> was moved into the workshops from its normal resting place in the depot yard.<\/p>\n<p>We will report further on this development as and when we know anything to report on! We are also hoping to have further photos of the departure later on this week.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8015\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=8015\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8015\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8015\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8015\" title=\"14-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/14-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">14 departs Wednesbury Depot on 17th June. It is thought it is on the way to Long Marston for testing although this isn&#39;t 100% confirmed! (Photo: Andy Walters)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was another historic date for second generation trams in the UK on Tuesday 17th June with Midland Metro T69 14 becoming the first of the class to leave Wednesbury. As rumoured at the weekend 14 has left and it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=8014\">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\/8014"}],"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=8014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8018,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014\/revisions\/8018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}